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Summary Of 'A Vast Machine'

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This blog entry is going to talk about data friction and infrastructural globalism, and explore the relationship between data and cultural analysis. The reading of ‘A Vast Machine’ by Paul N Edwards, pointed out the importance of aggregation through the example of climate change. While the climate change is not what we focusing, Edwards states that “Since both observing systems and data models evolve, global data also change. We have not one data image of the global climate, but many. The past, or rather what we can know about the past, changes. And it will keep on changing.” He explains how the global data, which is the different data from researchers and scientists around the world, have been aggregated to build models of climate change.
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