Friday, September 08, 2006

When in Rome, You Might be Tracked

Candace Lombardi writes on C|Net News:

Rome might not have been built in a day, but it was mapped in three dimensions.

That is, when Romans had their cell phones turned on. Telecom Italia, Italy's main telephone operator, has partnered with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a real-time mapping system that tracks how people move in urban spaces.

Real Time Rome debuted on Friday at the Venice Biennale, the canal-laden city's biennial fair of fine arts and, in recent years, technology projects related to urban studies.

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