spacebook – an interactive, post-privacy house
MIT’s Spacebook project looks to be a very interesting exploration of post-privacy:
Spacebook is a project to design an interactive house whose walls gradually change in transparency with changes in local environmental conditions and the presence or absence of people inside and outside the space. The projects uses a new type of glass that was recently patented at the SENSEable City Lab
via Planet Damage
Ok numerous problems here. It is obvious the person who came up with this has minimal if any technical knowledge or even construction knowledge. Building an entire house out of glass is a disaster waiting to happen in terms of structural strength but also all this “computer tracking of their view angles blah blah blah” shit? Thats just not gonna work without a shedload of cameras or a lot of implants in people.
It just seems like a waste of time to me. I certainly wouldn’t live in one of these.