Mapping’s Intelligent Agents: Autonomous Cars and Beyond

You are reading an article printed from Places, the journal of public scholarship on architecture, landscape, and urbanism. Read more at placesjournal.org. You can change your preferences at any time. Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Public scholarship on architecture, landscape, and urbanism Self-driving cars have sparked a “billion dollar war over maps,” but the cars are the most boring thing about it. How do machine intelligences read and write the world? And what Other intelligences deserve our attention? SHANNON MATTERN SEPTEMBER 2017 We now take it for granted that our machines can sense almost any space in the world, from deep sea trenches to the chambers of the human heart. Building on thousands of years of research in physics, war, and natural history, doctors in the 1940s began using ultrasound to scan human and animal bodies. Taking cues from dolphins and bats and Leonardo da Vinci’s early echolocation experiments, nava

You are reading an article printed from Places, the journal of public scholarship on architecture, landscape, and urbanism. Read more at placesjournal.org. You can change your preferences at any time. Δdocument.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Public scholarship on architecture, landscape, and urbanism Self-driving cars have sparked a “billion dollar war over maps,” but the cars are the most boring thing about it. How do machine intelligences read and write the world? And what Other intelligences deserve our attention? SHANNON MATTERN SEPTEMBER 201