A little misleading as regards the Japanese technological landscape, but still important.

A nuanced, passionate, comprehensively-researched, fairly incredible piece on urban roadway remediation and systemic flow from John Tolva. Frankly, I'm still absorbing the full richness of it, but even a third of the way through I can tell you this is kind of a jackpot link.

"Bluetooth is also used to transfer data about the movement patterns of the person carrying to mobile device to a server, in order to analyze movement patterns, queue and dwell time."

(Note how this was discovered.)

Predictive analytics. Oh joy.

For future reference.

Interesting primarily for the metaphor bleed (excuse me: "exaptation") from the NFL to the conduct of warfare.

"[O]fficials are becoming more strategic about providing safe passage to school by keeping tabs on gang and clique activities in real time as their turf wars hopscotch around school catchment areas."