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| 'Cloud Gate' - Millenium Park Chicago |
Today's blog post is inspired by Anish Kapoor's beautiful 'Cloud Gate' in Chicago. It is a public sculpture to play and interact with in any weather. I aim to go see it touch it with one finger and look at the city go by one day. The blog post itself is just like that - a single touch to a gate of the kind of diverse engineering which takes place at remote locations. [The photo courtesy of Lisa Yarost.]
Most people think of remote terminal units and remote systems as an atomic black box, doing a certain job, somewhere far off, with a means to communicate. The black box has become a citadel, a complex arrangement of interacting intelligent devices which need a gate through which to communicate.
What does it look like inside that far off citadel, and what kind of architectures support it ?. What follows is a brief introduction to the story of the development of the Gated Diverse Architecture.
