The Metacity

Rob McIntosh, Creative Director

-NAWLZ

The modern city is becoming a pointer system, the new URL, for tomorrows 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 metacities 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

the city becomes the platform

Architecture & Interiors Me & You City History Social Geotags City Mass Transit Air & Sea Transit

Friend Location

an interfaced MetaCity: the city platform that provides a picture of any situation, anywhere, And we will enjoy, without the burden of its machinery. a freedom paradigm.

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

a shared infrastructure

private infrastructure

personal systems

public infrastructure

the city becomes an extension of our senses.

we are the computer.

it creates: knowledge connections meaning new freedoms a public luxury

frog is imagining how that feels

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Brompton Me

the city is the new computer