From cafe to parkbench:wi-fi and technological overflows in the city
Adrian Mackenzie · Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) · 2006
Mobile digital communications connect movements of people to movements of data. Wi-Fi, a 'wireless technology' in U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defence Wolfowitz's terms, connects people and data in a quite complicated cultural-technological mix. In certain contexts, it dispenses with the wires that connect computers and the Internet. But this mundane innovation in new media infrastructure seen in many domestic, commercial and organisational settings, can be interpreted as significant in different ways: