Bruno Latour, Aramis, or the Love of Technology, PDF - Dss-edit.com

PIaorm 1X" StationI / Plaorm 2SubstationDPCC workshopDivergentConvergentExterior track: 996 metersInterior track: 604 metersRadius of small loop: 10 metersContractor's bUildingI IFigure } }technological documentation, because it was finally beginning to resemblewhat I had learned in school."And look," he added, "no matter what page we unfold, it's ascomplicated, as populated as the others, no matter what the scale. Uphere it's the boulevard Victor. And down below, it's the inside of a singlepair of cars. Each time, it's a squeeze. Six complete computers connectedby a communications loop where as many things are circulatingas on the loop up there, on scale one. A single pair of cars is ascomplicated as the system as a whole. And now each packet of bits onthe internal circuit is a pair to be identified, "vith which to encode, tolocate. Here's the title we ought to use in our report: Crowds Press ontothe Boulevard Victor-Frankenstein!"I understood the problems now, but I also saw why the engineerswere in their element."And even so," I explained gleefully, "we're not taking intoaccount the flow matrices, with 600 pairs of cars for 14,000 passengers,that the real system would have had if it had existed. The whole CETis only one little pair-nothing at all in comparison with the entirePetite Ceinture system" [Figure 12]."What crowds, what crowds!" Norbert exclaimed naIvely. Andnow that they've been taken on, they mustn't be abandoned. Was ShelleyARAMIS AT THE CET STAGF