Comments on: Intro. 991 & The City of Things http://www.coactivate.org/projects/campaign-for.nyc/blog/2009/06/30/intro-911-the-city-of-things/ Just another weblog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 01:10:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 By: Thomas Lowenhaupt http://www.coactivate.org/projects/campaign-for.nyc/blog/2009/06/30/intro-911-the-city-of-things/#comment-1506 Thomas Lowenhaupt Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:15:28 +0000 http://www.coactivate.org/projects/campaign-for.nyc/blog/2009/06/30/intro-911-the-city-of-things/#comment-1506 I just returned - around 6 PM - from a run around the neighborhood during which I saw a fellow sleeping (passed out?) on the sidewalk where it passes under the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. How would it be, I wondered, if I was able to assign a URL to this fellow. That is, if upon returning home I'd of gone to the homeless.data.nyc database and created a URL about this fellow. And I started to imagine neighbors discussing his plight, with hospitals, the Salvation Army, and, if needed, city agencies engaging in a salvation effort. And I then thought about someone creating a URL about me. And linking it to other URLs where I'm mentioned. Somewhat like google does. And then I imagined this 2020 scenario: A latter day Mr. Rogers sits the children down, opens and begins reading from a book, "Once upon a time there was something called privacy..." Tom I just returned - around 6 PM - from a run around the neighborhood during which I saw a fellow sleeping (passed out?) on the sidewalk where it passes under the Brooklyn Queens Expressway.

How would it be, I wondered, if I was able to assign a URL to this fellow. That is, if upon returning home I’d of gone to the homeless.data.nyc database and created a URL about this fellow. And I started to imagine neighbors discussing his plight, with hospitals, the Salvation Army, and, if needed, city agencies engaging in a salvation effort.

And I then thought about someone creating a URL about me. And linking it to other URLs where I’m mentioned. Somewhat like google does.

And then I imagined this 2020 scenario: A latter day Mr. Rogers sits the children down, opens and begins reading from a book, “Once upon a time there was something called privacy…”

Tom

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