A City is Not a Computer

A digital meditation, made using Bitsy by Adam Le Doux. The user is one of a large team of human operators in a city-wide automated control centre, scanning through a synthetic map of tasks generated by the system, and reading the comments appended by their fellow operators, as they attempt to coordinate a response. Boredom, bad data, and Sisyphean taskings, as well as hoaxes, sensor vandalism, and signal noise, make up the bulk of the day-to-day tedium facing these operators, who are the unhera...