Anne is going to talk about “technologically augmented cities.” [Abstract]

There have always already been four facets of “the real” that need to be considered when looking at the virtual. There’s the real and the possible, and the ideal and the actual. The virtual is the ideally real. The abstract is the possibly ideal. The concrete is the actually real. The probable is the actually possible.

“The virtual is a real idealization. It’s like memory or a dream or even intention. It belongs in the past, in a sense.” (I hope she says more about the past.) The concrete is the present. The abstract exists outside of time. The probable exists in the future. Communication occupies all four quadrants. We shoujld be looking at movements between categories. Thus, we can’t say that the augmented city is a real city or virtual city. Rather, we need to look which elements are actual, concrete, etc. And for whom and when? And that’s what Anne is working on.

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