The emerging technology, called “Augmented Reality,” enables users to see location-specific data superimposed over their surroundings. Long a staple of science fiction, it’s trickling into the real world through the iPhone and similar ultrasmart mobile phones.
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Rebuilding New Orleans – Houses Of The Future?
“In the absence of strong central leadership, the rebuilding has atomized into a series of independent neighborhood projects. And this has turned New Orleans–moist, hot, with a fecund substrate that seems to allow almost anything to propagate–into something of a petri dish for ideas about housing and urban life.”
Russia’s Art World Under Attack
Since the late 1990s “art-world figures have been more or less constantly under attack by authorities. Right now two prominent figures are on trial in a Moscow courtroom, accused of breaking a law passed in 1996 against inciting religious hatred.”
America’s Best Theatre Cities
New York, predictably, ranks first, and Chicago is indeed the Second City. But pity the poor stage buffs in beautiful Honolulu: Their city ranks dead last.