Publications

Whose bits are they, anyway?

Davenport G

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July 1997

IEEE Multimedia (July - September, 1997), vol. 4 issue 3, pg. 8 - 10.

Abstract

Recently, I have been collaborating on the design of a house that I might live in for the rest of my life. Or have I? No matter what an architect tells you—no matter how much you believe that the design of your home will draw upon your personal lifestyle, habits, desires, and self-knowledge—the plan actually springs from (and is detailed by) an imagination which is not your own. That is, after all, why one hires an architect to begin with...

http://mf.media.mit.edu/pubs/journal/WhoseBits.pdf