Awareing Ourselves to Death
News Source : The Atlantic
News Summary
- World Monitor was built over a single weekend in January by Elie Habib, an engineer based in the United Arab Emirates.
- The site aims to display as much information about world events as possible in an assortment of real-time feeds.
- Right now, the site pulls in more than 100 different streams of data, including stock prices, prediction markets, satellite movements, weather alerts, major-airport flight data.
- The information is all real, but what exactly a person ought to do with it is unclear.
From the comfort of my desk, I can see it all. A series of webcam feeds show me the sun setting over Tel Aviv and southern Lebanon. A map of the world, flecked with red dots, indicates that most of E [+11484 chars]
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