July 10, 2006
Transparent City [WMMNA]
Inspired by the fact that mobile phone users are to be tracked to within 50 meters, as a result of the FCC’s E911 mandate, Derek Lomas plans to develop Transparent City, a city modeled in 3D using only the positions of small orbs, representing individual mobile phones.
... Users of the "Transparent City" may be able to set the brightness of the orbs to be proportionate to personal income (darkening Harlem and illuminating the financial district). More disturbingly, users will be able to tap any on-going phone call in real-time. Furthermore, using tracked call-logs, users will be able to display the interconnected networks of callers, which represent the de-facto social network of a city.
With this project Lomas seeks to show the future of surveillance and raise public consciousness at a time when we can still determine our own fate as a society.
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