Introduction
Hai Yu : To discuss the question of the spatiality of society is to discuss the spatialized existence of society in essence….Spatial agency also works, for example, when one recalls old memories at familiar sight. (Shanghhai Narrative, Springer, 2023)
In Digital Territory there are no more humans, only information spaces. At a particular moment from a database point of view, you will have more in common with your car than with your neighbor. For some idiot savants a green toothbrush is terribly different from a red toothbrush, a very different thing altogether. (van Kranenburg, Noema, 2007)[1]
We are in the process of moving from an analogue world to a hybrid one. We must prepare well. Transferring or better said chaneling vital energy from ome period to another is extremely complex if frequencies are not aligned. When they are aligned the process is simple and hardly experienced by the actors. If the space is well prepared people step in and assume it was always there. Without questioning the mode of being of the space as an essence, as a designed framework of values, it is worn as a well fitting dress, a well fitting glove.
Most people think, and most systems are built on the idea that there is a strong difference between theory and practice, whereas in effect theory has its own domain in epistemology, and praxis has its own domain in phronesis which covers everything from rituals, custom, family knowledge passed on. In fact, this is the case.
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For centuries innovation was incremental, driven by the accumulated experience ant attitudes of the tribe. It is important to note that every item, object, and custom was visible, approachable and in principle, adaptable. Until early sensor driven predictive maintenance met a virus like protocol TCP/IP and cheap Cloud. IoT’s origin is in the phronesis of the factories. Certain workers had an ear for when a machine would break down. They listend to sounds and they felt the heatened machine. When the guys were pensioned of they were replaced by four of five sensors tuned to rhytm, sound, temperature, vibration. That data first was lost until it was stored in Local Area Networks (the edge, it existed all along). Aggregated data of different machines of the same kind led to more insight into its behaviour, early Machine Learning. As more and more machines in factories got connected with the internet storage was needed and around 2000 that Cloud was born. This enabled solid analytics and paved the way for AI. This how IoT, connectivity, and AI were always connected and inscribed in the digital transition from the beginning. As it moved outside the factories into the smart city it created with autonomous driving a story to sell every thing becoming smart. The autonomous vehicle was never about mobility, it was about creating a need for every object surrounding the vehicle to become smart.
[1] https://noemalab.eu/ideas/essay/generic-infrastructures-1/