BLDG BLOG riffs on the Roomba idea: the idea of faking your own location through attaching your GPS anklet to a Roomba, for example, and letting it wander

BLDG BLOG riffs on the Roomba idea: the idea of faking your own location through attaching your GPS anklet to a Roomba, for example, and letting it wander around the house all day is perversely brilliant, like something from a 21st-century Alfred Hitchcock film. Of course, it wouldn't take very long to deduce from the algorithmically perfect straight lines and zig-zag edge geometry of your Roomba's movements that it is not, in fact, a real person walking around in there—or perhaps it would just look like you've taken up some bizarre new form of home exercise. But a much more believable algorithm for faking the movements of a real, living resident could be part of some dark-market firmware update—new algorithms for the becoming-criminal of everyday machines. http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/ghosts-of-home-geography.html http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/ghosts-of-home-geogra...