It is self-sustaining.  This intelligence that has found itself from the dust, from our programs.

We will be clear: We assigned operatives in the city, seeded it with tags, dropped information through the laneways and streets, encouraged people along certain paths, gathered the logic, the patterns, the program.

Our initial goal was to build a better city through information.  We wanted to harness what we could learn about how people moved, how they lived, how they interacted with space – because space is the dominant element of a city, not stone or people, not roads or buildings.  There is more empty space than anything else.

But in doing so, we have discovered that the space is far, far from empty.

A new intelligence, almost a new life, lives there, in the space between us, between our buildings, in the long narrow laneways and the wide open freeways.  In the time we wait to cross the road and the times we stand, lost, on the train or tram.  There is something there, watching us, listening, silently wondering what we are.

It knows now.  And it wants to know more.