Beyond Locative Media

After reading the Beyond Locative Media article, there were several things that I found interesting.

First off, "location aware, networked, mobile devices make possible invisible notes attached to spaces, places, people, and things."
This means several things: "computer games move outside and get subversive, sex and love are easier to find, real space can be marked and demarcated invisibly," and stuff like augmented reality become possible.

Also, the article talked about how locative media basically has two types of mapping: either virtually tagging the world, or tracing the action of the subject(s) in the world.

Another thing I found interesting was how they talked about adding switches to street lights so that they could be turned on and off at will, allowing people to wander in subway stations and around at night.

One last thing that I found interesting/kind of scary was that "since the US Army controls GPS satellites, in using them we allow ourselves to be targeted by a global military infrastructure..." It's scary to think that by just carrying around our cell phones, there are people out there with access to the right technology to be able to track wherever we are at any given time.