Month: November 2008

"What's the attraction of maps? I think it's a paradox. They are humanity's attempt to capture the world on paper. But as a cartographer you can capture only a micro-fraction of what exists. For a start, three dimensions must be elided into two, and the globe must be shown as a flat Earth. So you fudge. You are selective. You alter shapes and make crooked lines straight. You exaggerate features you consider important, and erase others."

(tags: maps cartography politics geography)

Stross highlights recent legislation allowing solely "virtual" companies in one US state, something he anticipated in a novel.

(tags: anticipation futurism vision writing trends place-space internet economy)

"Mobile Multiplayer Trans-Reality Games is a new video game type like MMORPG , RTS ou FPS. MMTRG enable you to play in the real and in the virtual life with your mobile phone : Your city become your playground" – ARG on a wide-scale with LBS etc. Again, another Stross-like game a la 'Halting State'.

(tags: game mobile urbancomputing technology partialattention endofcyberspace trends socialnetworking place-space)

Location Based Massively Multiplayer Games – echoing Stross' secret agents game in his recent book 'Halting State'. Augmented Reality Gaming with LBS?

(tags: mediation locative design games mobility geography endofcyberspace urbancomputing participatory_media)