Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure
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Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure
I think the internet is more like land. In this metaphor:URLs ~= PlacesLinks ~= RoadsNetworks ~= City-states
every.to • Twitter as a City-State
the structure of the internet manifests the same network effects and the same general agglomeration patterns as human populations in cities!
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
The Digital Map In digital space, a network state looks like a densely connected subgraph of a large social network. In our terminology, it’s a 1-network, not an N-network. To gain some intuition for digital space, realize that it is very different from physical space:
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
The internet is, after all, a physical presence. Its tubes cross the ocean. Its servers fill up deserts in Arizona. Too often we’re not prepared to visualize it in that way. The photographer Trevor Paglen has done an essential project where he dives into the ocean and tracks the cables snaking along the sea floor. He shoots portraits of Miami Beach
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