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A House Divided I

Sign (above) left by the construction company employee to the demolition-and-rebuild crew - essentially contextual, lo-fi asynchronous messaging. And the left over messages from the previous builder (below) - from 30 or so years ago when this place was first built still readable under layers of wall paper. What's the likelihood that the digital geo-tags of tomorrow will still be readable the day-after-the-day-after tomorrow?. And the consequences of unreadable formats?

The apartment? A new home in the making, a week to strip it down to an empty shell, two months of re-construction to make it livable. Just need to spend enough time in Tokyo to enjoy it.

Writing from Sangenjaya, back of | August 26, 2007 | Permalink