Opening Keynote

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Claim: large, populated places routinely vanish from map and civic datasets — a floating-lake community of 100,000 people, parts of Chad’s basin housing ~2 million people, Gobi settlements and most favelas (about 2% of favelas mapped) show satellite imagery but no geo data. Builds and demos include a pulse sensor + microcontroller projection, Pathways: animated geolocation and metadata maps for groups (National Geographic site), a GitHub “missing datasets” index, a physical filing‑cabinet Library of Missing Data Sets, and an interactive neon brackets classifier; explanations: resource/incentive mismatch, collection burden, metric resistance, and tactical nonexistence.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 3:42the implications of a machine-readable world
3. 18:14those with resources lack incentives
4. 19:24collection takes more than it
5. 19:51data resist metrification
6. 20:48benefits to nonexistence

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