Digital Infrastructure Withness
“The transformations that occur as smart cities migrate from an abstract and even speculative set of technologies to more concrete materializations,” What is concrete materialization author referring to.
“It is important to continue to extend the environmental aspects of computation in these ways, since it enables a more dynamic and processual understanding of how environments and digital media concresce to form actual entities and actual occasions,” How would these sensors work during any environment hazard?
“Sensors can be found overlapping with existing infrastructures, in some cases forming new networks; sensors are in place to monitor speci c temporary uses and events such as construction; sensors are monitoring air and vibration and water levels; and sensors are carried around in smartphones, as wearables, and other portable devices, whether as DIY citizen-sensing tools or monitors for detecting specific phenomena,” – does that mean participation by citizens is just using the digital infrastructure (lowest layer as discussed in previous lecture)?