The Address Book - 99% Invisible
- A number on your house is in a way a de-humenising act as the body that controls the geo-political landscape views you as a number to access and track your human self for vairous reason. Helpful and restrictive
- how certain names street carry ideoligical belief which transaltes to economic welth and or poverty of an area. Simply beacuse of a name linked to a person whom we have views about
- there are currently estimated 1billion individuals without address and some fight to keep that way.
Why do you want to be tracked by a goverment that not more than 2 generations ago undertook genoside to a certain people?
Why give up your privicy right?
Why feel you are a number in the eyes of the state and what reletionship does that create between citisen and goverment?
Why should employers know where you live in order to get a job?
- A solution could to randomly name plots of land rathern than street names, something that google is doing with the project what3words