Twentieth century information technology relied on the paper industry, with transcontinental exchanges of raw materials and for the production of pulp. The infrastructures of this systems transformed modern architecture, with their robust use of concrete structures, railways and harbours. Bureaucratic memory and information systems are matter and energy in motion. The traditional architectural expressions of this are monuments. They recall collective memory and act as premonitions for the future. Today, with algorithmic and digital information fluxes and AI, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish what has been recorded from what is being programmed.
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Aalto Siilo