{"id":1831,"date":"2006-03-05T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T06:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1831"},"modified":"2006-03-05T22:37:11","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T06:37:11","slug":"life-imitates-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1831","title":{"rendered":"life imitates art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/sterling\/\">Bruce Sterling<\/a>&#8216;s wonderful novel <i>Schismatrix<\/i> (1985), the spaceship Red Consensus has an interesting feature:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe control room . . . had been designed by some forgotten industrial theorist who believed that instruments should use acoustic signals. . . . Bizarre at first, the sounds were designed to sink unobtrusively into the backbrain.  Any change in the chorus, though, was immediately obvious.  Lindsay found the music soothing, a combination of heartbeat and brain.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkcomputing.com\/channels\/collaboration\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=179102649\">Now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nthe <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.sheridaninstitute.ca\/\">Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning<\/a> has created <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundtomind.com\/\">software<\/a> that translates network and server activity into music. And, their IT department operators can interpret the music to detect problems in the system.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Cited by <a href=\"http:\/\/soreeyes.org\/archive\/2006\/03\/05\/server-soundtracks\/\">Sore Eyes<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Bruce Sterling&#8216;s wonderful novel Schismatrix (1985), the spaceship Red Consensus has an interesting feature: The control room . . . had been designed by some forgotten industrial theorist who believed that instruments should use acoustic signals. . . . &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1831\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neep-neep"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}