Clearing the decks for tomorrow, let’s see what’s in the pipes tonight:Remember when I said WIRED UK’S subeditors were having some kind of epileptic fit this month? Apparently they fell on Adam Greenfield’s piece for the mag quite heavily, and so he is moved to present the unedited version of "Words On The Street" online:Without necessarily considering the matter with any particular care, as individuals or societies, we have installed devices in our clothing, our buildings, our vehicles and our tools which register, collect and transmit extraordinary volumes of data, and which share this data with the global network in real time. If some of us once - and recently! - thought of this as the domain of “ubiquitous computing,” the words are already starting to sound obsolescent, as clunky as “horseless carriage.” This is simply the way we do things now.A terrific term cropped up at Coming Anarchy: Deviant Globalisation. "The unsanctioned global flows of goods and services that violate bourgeois ethical sensibilities." The Afghan poppy trade as "deviant pharma." Really just a way to imagine the criminal economy riding globalisation, I suspect, but a fun term nonetheless. (It’s all research material to me, a springboard for a story element one day.) More explanation, slides and and video at the link.Here’s another good one: genomic architecture.Genomic architecture, based on the layered genome, encompasses an integrated world of “artificial architecture” (used in the same sense as “artificial intelligence” and “artificial life”), a world of complexity evolving in parallel with the natural world. It is a morphologically structured network of information that determines architectural taxonomies and phylogenies, permits digital manipulation of form in the design process, and enables mass-customization in digital manufacturing.Katelan Foisy’s got her new site up. Steve Goodman, aka Kode9, has got the cover for his forthcoming book up. I remember talking to him about cover design at

Based on EAP-technology "Funktionide" is a concept for an emotional robot that substitutes human contact. In a future where technology will play a huge part in our lifes it is very likely that some day it will shift from satisfiying our basic funtional needs to include our emotional needs as well. How will this future be? How do we want it to be? Will it affect our human interactions if we start to fall in love with machines? Will the machines fall in love with us?