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(Fictional content) The Concrete whisperers: Programming buildings with kinetic acoustic data. For over a century now, architecture has abided by the famous dictum of roman architecture vitruvius, a structure must posses strength, utility and beauty. But in a quiet laboratory just outside Zurich, a radical group of materials scientists and software engineers are adding a fourth pillar: data resonance They call themselves "structural coders " and they are testing the physical foundation of our world not as a passive block of stone but as dynamic hard drive. Welcome to an era of KINETIC ACOUSTIC ARCHITECTURE. The micro-cavity evolution: To understand how a building can hold data, you have to look at concrete at a microscopic level. Standard concrete is like chaotic matrix of aggregate,cement and tiny accidental air pockets. Acoustic programming fixes this chaos into an algorithm by injecting precise, high-frequency sound waves into liquid concrete as it cures, engineers can force the forming microscopic air pockets into geometric repeating Patterns. "we are essentially writing code into molecular structure of the wall."says Dr. Elana Vance, lead researcher of the Neo-materials institute. "By controlling the shape and spacing of these micro-cavities, the concrete ceases to be just a barrier. It becomes a localized acoustic filter and data wave guide. When human foot traffic ripples through the building, the KINETIC energy creates vibrations. In a standard building, this energy is wasted or taken as noise. In an acoustically building, these vibrations hit the microscopic patterns echoing in highly predictable ways. The building is no longer standing there its processing. GOODBYE WI-FI HELLO SONIC WEBS This application can be used in replacing electronic wireless networks with structural harmonics by use of technology sounds like science fiction Because the programmed concrete guides the guides sound so precisely, a tiny unpredictable mechanical hum generated at the base of a pillar can travel throughout the entire skyscraper without loosing its shape. This hum can be modulated to curry data pockets. By placing a small acoustic reciever (no longer than a coin) anywhere on a wall a computer or a smartphone can decode the physical vibrations of the building into high-speed Data.

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