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“722 Miles: The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York” (Clifton Hood) Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; ISBN: 0801852447; Reprint edition © 1995.

A great read about the history of the New York City subway system. Also an excellent analysis of the political and technical difficulties of building a complex network.

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Parasitic computing is an interesting idea from Albert-László Barabási. From the site:

“Parasitic computing is an example of a potential technology that could be viewed simultaneously as a threat or healthy addition to the online universe. On the Internet, reliable communication is guaranteed by a standard set of protocols, used by all computers. These protocols can be exploited to compute with the communication infrastructure, transforming the Internet into a distributed computer in which servers unwittingly perform computation on behalf of a remote node. In this model, one machine forces target computers to solve a piece of a complex computational problem merely by engaging them in standard communication.”

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Window display driven by SMS messaging by IDEO

TopTrack - identifies any song played at a volume loud enough to be picked up by the cell phone

The Internet Plug - a net-controlled AC relay

Ceiva’s net-connected picture frames

Self-Healing Minefields

Radio taxi-art

BitTaxi - The Bureau of Inverse Technology pubished data on how to reverse-engineer interactive taxi advertising banners. (Scroll down for details). More info is available on the BitTaxi wiki.

Technorati Tags: displays, networked objects, networks