Perhaps the influence of digital technology on the City is already illustrating the boundary between the real and the virtual world, like Goddard’s Alphaville which, through deft use of real locations, transformed a real city into a science fictional one.
Is it In this city then that we are witnessing our very existence being subsumed to the point where we humans become akin to scannable barcodes?
– Having undergone a programme of digital mapping beginning with the human genome project, perhaps the recent Pandemic offered another portal to extend this – Could our seemingly robotic formations be a precursor of a time when we’re no longer able to discern what is human and what isn’t?