This really reminds me of the Curious Rituals study that came out last year about how we adapt our behavior to the technology, not the other way around. 

There are better ways to handle spatial ideas, ways which are more in line with the way our bodies are built. Human hands and fingers are good at feeling texture and detail, and good at gripping things—neither of which touch interfaces take advantage of. The real future of interfaces will take advantage of our natural abilities to tell the difference between textures, to use our hands to do things without looking at them—they’ll involve haptic feedback and interfaces that don’t even exist, so your phone shows you information you might want without you even needing to unlock and interact with it. But these ideas are elegant, understated, and impossible to understand when shown on camera.

(via How ‘Minority Report’ Trapped Us In A World Of Bad Interfaces | The Awl)

This is really cool. The only problem of course is that, generally, technology can adapt faster than architecture. Meaning once a building is built it’s not very changeable. Maybe we’ll see the evolution of more dynamic building structures. That would be cool.

“Architecture against drones is not just a science-fiction scenario but a contemporary imperative,” writes Asher J. Kohn.

Kohn, an American law student and editor of The Tuqay, a website covering “Central Asia and its hinterlands,” has recently put forth a theoretical proposal for a city built to passively shield its residents against this ultramodern tool of warfare — a drone-deflecting city. He created it for a class he was auditing in extreme architecture, and it has since been picked up for discussion by several websites.

Kohn’s envisioned drone-proof community, which he calls “Shura City,” is a thought experiment, a provocation (shura, Arabic for consultation, is a word associated with group decision-making in the Islamic world). It’s a self-contained environment with elaborate architectural devices designed to thwart robotic predators overhead. Minarets, along with the wind-catching cooling towers called badgirs, would obstruct the flight path of the drones. A latticed roof, extending over the entire community, would create shade patterns to make visual target identification difficult. A fully climate-controlled environment would confuse heat-seeking detection systems. He has not included any anti-aircraft weapons in this scenario.

(via Imagining a Drone-Proof City - Politics - The Atlantic Cities)

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