The MetacityRob McIntosh, Creative Director -NAWLZ

The modern city is becoming a pointer system, the new URL, for tomorrow’s hybrid digital physical environment. Today's Facebook will be complemented by tomorrow's Placebook.

Explosive innovation and adoption of computing, mobile devices, and rich sources of data are changing the cities in which we live, work, and play. It's about us, and how computing in the context of our cities is changing how we live. A digital landscape overlays our physical world and is expanding to offer ever-richer experiences that complement, and in emerging cases, replace the physical experience. In the meta–cities of the future, computing isn't just with us; it surrounds us, and it uses the context of our environment to empower us in more natural, yet powerful ways.

the city is the new computer

the city is the platform, the network, the sensors, and the interface

The city has become layered.

Mobility Options

Food & ATM Locations

Traffic

Data From Space

Friend Location

Architecture & Interiors

Me & You

City History

Social Geotags

City Mass Transit

Air & Sea Transit

the city becomes the platform

an interfaced MetaCity:

the city platform that provides a picture

of any situation, anywhere, And we

will enjoy, without the burden of it’s

machinery. a freedom paradigm.

everyone, everything, and everywhere becomes part of the city interface

private infrastructure

public infrastructure

a shared infrastructure

personalsystems

the city becomes an extension of our senses.

we are the computer.

it creates:knowledgeconnectionsmeaningnew freedomsa public luxury

frog is imagining how that feels

1910

Today

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the city is the new computer