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Project Palantir - Facebook visualisation shows users communicating with each other around the world
Posted on Nov 28, 2008
It’s easy to forget how much the internet has revolutionised global communication in the past decade - until you see it with your own eyes. Credit: news.com.au
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This reminds of of the beginning of part two of William Gibson’s Neuromancer:
PART TWO: THE SHOPPING EXPEDITION
Home.
Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis.
Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, everythousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation.
Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale.
Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta. . .
By Sean Murphy on 09 02 2009
Sean, Neuromancer - what a seminal book and what a visionary Gibson was. When I was a University lecturer I used to make all the students read this.
I wonder if the kids of today realise that Geek cool is essentially neo cyber punk
By Kevin Garber on 09 02 2009
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