crankymessiah wrote:
] ] Weird week. Weird, weird week, passing from alert orange
] ] to heavenly white and back to the usual muddle of slush.
] ] People keep trying to "gauge public opinion" at this
] ] moment of crisis. Fortunately, though, in the past year
] ] in New York we've had on hand a machine that can tell you
] ] what the world is thinking%u2014that actually listens to
] ] the world, reads its mind, and tells you exactly what's
] ] up in there. The machine, a Jimmy Neutron assemblage of
] ] display monitors and loudspeakers and copper wire, is the
] ] brainchild of a Bell Labs statistician named Mark Hansen
] ] and a sound designer and artist named Ben Rubin, and for
] ] most of the past year you could find it in a loft on the
] ] Bowery, where you could drop in on it if you knew it was
] ] there. For the past couple of months, though, it has been
] ] on loan to the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in a
] ] rough week it was a pleasure to sit in the dark and
] ] listen

Pretty cool idea. But I doubt it's listening to a comprehensive enough selection of chat. Too much data!

RE: Chatter