[Reading Response 2] The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities

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I like this analogy to the machine city: for disciplinary control proceeds by distributing bodies/uses in space, allocating each individuals to a cellular partition, and creating an efficient machine out of its analytical spatial arrangement. I thought that this analogy of machine city is similar to the feeling that I got from being in Hong Kong. Poeple work in a small partition, from 9 to 6, and goes to home using MTR, which is very crowded but the trains come in a very discipline time table. People go to a very small, cellular home, and sleep and start another day.
It felt like humans are parts of a machine that keeps the society and economy to sustain.

The idea that disciplinary societies that have shaped conduct are giving way to numerical societies of modulating control, enabled by computer technology, was an intriguing analogy for cyber cities. Given that AI is replacing many vocations, the recent development of Apple Vision Pro illustrates how human behavior is becoming more predetermined. They are unaware that they are constantly being duped and subjugated by the information offered by computer technology.

 

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