The Metacity Rob McIntosh, Creative
Director -NAWLZ

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.

the city is the new
computer

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

The city has become layered.

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

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.

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

a shared infrastructure private infrastructure
personal systems public infrastructure

the city becomes an extension
of our senses.

we are the computer.

it creates: knowledge connections meaning
new freedoms a public luxury

frog is imagining how that
feels

Today
Brompton
1910
Me

the city is the new
computer