- Systemic changes
Unconsciously, we merging virtual and natural worlds each second that we send, download or upload information; since the natural world feeding virtual entities, thanks to the connectivity of the WWW and the 5G, people relish fluidity, flexibility, and adaptability; we are responsible for all the data that has been collected. Who manages all of these data? Why our data is managed and commercialized by private enterprises? Do we know what dangerous is it if the data is supervised by the wrong hands?
This work raises awareness about virtual and natural worlds that have been merge since the creation of hypertext; new forms of life are possible thanks to the telecommunication industry, these don't just modify the urban landscape, these will reshape our way of life. A.I. is better each second, so how should be architecture contribute to the addition of these entities on the urban ecosystems? Do we need to give control of these entities to humans or these should be autonomous entities?
“When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Even technology carries its negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress”.
(Virilio, Politics of the very worst, 1999)
“There are eyes everywhere. No blind spot left. What shall we dream of when everything becomes visible? We'll dream of being blind.”(Virilio, The aesthetics of disappearance, 1991),
“It is, in fact, impossible clearly to distinguish economic war from information war, since each involves the same hegemonic ambition of making commercial and military exchanges interactive”(Virilio, The Information Bomb, 2000)
