Via the Ellen Degeneres show and Fark today, here's a story about a very lucky black cat living as a post-cat in a post-human world:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/170194_turkey22.html
The cat, named Cheyenne, was lost in Florida seven years ago and wound up found in San Francisco. The cat was found on April Fool's Day no less (black cat, seven years, april 1...too good to be true). The cat and owner were reunited because of a subdermal microchip "in" the kitty. The panopticon is not only watching us but watching our pets, too. Of course, there's already technology to track our children and convicts.
I wonder what Hayles would say?
ED
P.S. Here's something else I've run across: Pac-Manhattan. From the website: http://pacmanhattan.com/index.php
"Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980's video game sensation Pac-Man. This analog version of Pac-man is being developed in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications graduate program, in order to explore what happens when games are removed from their "little world" of tabletops, televisions and computers and placed in the larger "real world" of street corners, and cities.
A player dressed as Pac-man will run around the Washington square park area of Manhattan while attempting to collect all of the virtual "dots" that run the length of the streets. Four players dressed as the ghosts Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde will attempt to catch Pac-man before all of the dots are collected.
Using cell-phone contact, Wi-Fi internet connections, and custom software designed by the Pac-Manhattan team, Pac-man and the ghosts will be tracked from a central location and their progress will be broadcast over the internet for viewers from around the world."
Again, what would Hayles say?
who is hayles? and what would he say?