The Metacity: A Conceptual Framework for Integrating Ecology and ...
The Metacity
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The Metacity Rob McIntosh, Creative Director -NAWLZ
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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.
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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
BromptonMe
the city is the new computer
