Carsten Agger on Tue, 19 Mar 2019 09:14:09 +0100 (CET)


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Re: <nettime> Banality of code


On 3/19/19 6:19 AM, Morlock Elloi wrote:
> The most scary recent example I've seen are the new elevators: there
> are no buttons/controls inside. They will take you where you have been
> authorized to go, by someone else.
>
This makes me even happier that I've absolutely refused to use elevators
for a couple of decades now. This can lead to interesting situations, as
when visiting a friend who lives under the roof of a 20-story house in
Brussels, and my first demand upon entering, down below, was: Please
show me the stairs!  I'd probably never be friends with New York.
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