"After a brief bang around the reputation and suggestion networks, a wide field of view camera was identified and two ordered...."
"We push buttons to control the algorithms of the city, as in the buttons to control signals and so forth. Or roll our cars over induction loops – these are parameters to the algoithms of top-down controls over urban flows. Suppose we interceded more directly or suppose the geometry of the city were represented this way, as a product of the non-codified “algorithm” of movements.
"What sort of world would this be? What would it look like?"
http://www.nearfuturelaboratory.com/2009/08/10/an-apparatus-for-capturing-other-points-of-view/
A cartesian grid distorted by flows around the Union Square Farmers Market.