shameless plug - these real-time traffic services make me think back to some of the predictions i made in my 2000 article - "Mobile Communications in the 21st Century City" - about how "urban metabolism" would speed up as these kinds of services come online and all kinds of daily decisions start getting linked together through real-time information loops
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