One of Benjamin Bratton’s most compelling ideas is the concept of deep address—the extreme condition in which every “thing” in the world, every person, every event, every raindrop, and every piece of information are recorded as data, indexed, and saved in databases for later retrieval. This is of course a mere extension of how we currently live: A huge amount of reality already leaves a reliable if incomplete data trace, from how we scroll through our Facebook feeds to what the weather is like at any specific set of geographical coordinates on the planet. More of the world is brought within this legible realm every day, making Bratton’s thought experiment ever more realistic.
#14: World of Edges
#14: World of Edges
#14: World of Edges
One of Benjamin Bratton’s most compelling ideas is the concept of deep address—the extreme condition in which every “thing” in the world, every person, every event, every raindrop, and every piece of information are recorded as data, indexed, and saved in databases for later retrieval. This is of course a mere extension of how we currently live: A huge amount of reality already leaves a reliable if incomplete data trace, from how we scroll through our Facebook feeds to what the weather is like at any specific set of geographical coordinates on the planet. More of the world is brought within this legible realm every day, making Bratton’s thought experiment ever more realistic.