Inspiration for our open call for Data Rush, Noorderlichts upcoming festival: The Electronic Countermeasures project by Liam Young proposes to create citizen drone networks that operate independently from the internet and state censorship. Revolutionary communities are coalescing around social networks and text messages and occupy the city with the force to topple governments. The U.S. military’s has development autonomous aerial drones that they can be launched across a place like Egypt, when the government cut off internet access to prevent people from organizing protests. These drones would fly off and hover above the city, and create ad hoc connections and networks in a new form of nomadic territorial infrastructure. It did leave me wondering if these drones werent too easy to target by ground-to-air forces...but perhaps there is a countermeasure imaginable for that as well. vimeo/36267881
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 21:28:23 +0000
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