The document discusses how cities are becoming digital platforms that overlay the physical world. As computing and mobile devices become more integrated into daily life, digital experiences are complementing and sometimes replacing physical experiences. In the future, computing will surround and empower people in cities in more natural ways using environmental context. The city itself is becoming the platform, network, sensors, and interface - layering the physical and digital worlds and offering increased mobility options, data access, and connections to people and information.

1. The Metacity
Rob McIntosh, Creative Director -NAWLZ

2. The modern city is becoming a pointer system,
the new URL, for tomorrow’s hybrid digital
physical environment. Today's Facebook will be
complemented by tomorrow's Placebook.
Explosive innovation and adoption of computing, mobile devices, and rich
sources of data are changing the cities in which we live, work, and play. It's
about us, and how computing in the context of our cities is changing how
we live. A digital landscape overlays our physical world and is expanding to
offer ever-richer experiences that complement, and in emerging cases,
replace the physical experience. In the meta–cities of the future,
computing isn't just with us; it surrounds us, and it uses the context of our
environment to empower us in more natural, yet powerful ways.

3. the city is the new computer

4. the city is the
platform,
the network,
the sensors,
and the interface

5. The city has become layered.

6. Mobility Options
Food & ATM Locations
Traffic
Data From Space
Friend Location
the city becomes the platform
Architecture & Interiors
Me & You
City History
Social Geotags
City Mass Transit
Air & Sea Transit

7. an interfaced MetaCity:
the city platform that provides a picture
of any situation, anywhere, And we
will enjoy, without the burden of it’s
machinery. a freedom paradigm.

8. everyone,
everything,
and everywhere
becomes part of
the city interface

9. a shared infrastructure
private infrastructure
personal
systems
public infrastructure

10. the city becomes
an extension of
our senses.

11. we are the computer.

13. it creates:
knowledge
connections
meaning
new freedoms
a public luxury

14. frog is imagining how that feels

15. Today
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1910
Me

17. the city is the new computer