Open AccessData cities and astrospatial architecture: An urban ethos from electromagnetic fluxes
Author(s) -
D. Jackson
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/509/1/012028
Subject(s) - architecture , civilization , telematics , telecommunications , sustenance , human life , computer science , engineering , electrical engineering , political science , visual arts , art , humanity , law
Light remains the origin and sustenance of all forms of life on Earth—but human living is being transformed by ingenious applications of astrospatial technologies that were devised to fly to other planets. This century’s networked architectures of semiconductors, satellites, scanners and sensors manipulate diverse electromagnetic frequencies to convert light into unprecedented formats and contents of data that are destined to inform most human behaviours in future. Telematics and informatics are taking our civilisation far beyond the milieu of modernism enabled by Edison’s 1879 demonstration of electric incandescence, and the transmillennial ‘digital age’ underpinned by portable computers and mobile telephony.