[ExI] Anons

[Kelly Anderson]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Amara D. Angelica <amara at kurzweilai.net> wrote:
> Kelly, I really love this traffic idea. Sort of an emergent order concept.

Here is the original article (I remember a few more pictures in the magazine)
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/traffic.html

> Would be fun to take it a step further and create a new kind of town with no
> defined roads, no sidewalks, information signals that combine to control
> computer-automated vehicles (supersedes driven cars and traffic signals) for
> people and machines that are generated by sensors for ad hoc movements of
> objects, wind, noise, thoughts ("I want to cross the street" -- I want to
> dance here now), deformable structures (car to building: "may I take a
> shortcut through you?"), instant 3D-printed structures that can be morphed
> into different purposes.... [pause to let someone else co-invent ...]

Blending car traffic with pedestrians is interesting... but I wouldn't
take it too far... :-)

-Kelly