Archinect - News2024-05-03T22:37:33-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/104187496/what-happens-when-digital-cities-are-abandoned
What Happens When Digital Cities Are Abandoned? Archinect2014-07-14T19:20:00-04:00>2014-07-16T19:12:56-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/f8/f8f1954f1c061d588b5d751f9c6b19ec?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>I’m a quiet fan of these urban explorers, people who devote time to poking around abandoned buildings or “haikyo”.... And because I’ve spent so much time inhabiting digital rooms myself, I often think about how time decays digital structures. I imagine all of the strings of text that have come before or after mine that similarly disappeared into the void. But what happens when those spaces stick around, as in a virtual world—when they can’t physically decay?</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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