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Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space

Our cities are "smart" and getting smarter as information processing capability is embedded throughout more and more of our urban infrastructure. Download Sentient City: Ubiquitous Computing, Architecture, and the Future of Urban Space from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Few of us object to traffic light control systems that respond to the ebbs and flows of city traffic; but we might be taken aback when discount coupons for our favorite espresso drink are beamed to our mobile phones as we walk past a Starbucks. Sentient City explores the experience of living in a city that can remember, correlate, and anticipate. Five teams of architects, artists, and technologists imagine a variety of future interactions that take place as computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, streets, and public spaces of the city. "Too Smart City" employs city furniture as Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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