The City of Wires

The Seen City

The Seen City is a collection of curiosities: a Lego machine that rocks a baby to sleep, a radio talking to satellites, a script that predicts the unpredictable. It is a place of joyous, chaotic invention. The shops sell resistors and parentheticals in equal measure. The air hums with the frequency of a homemade transmitter.

The Unseen City

Beneath the workbench lies the Unseen City—the city of the Wish. Here, the inhabitants code not for the computers they have, but for the computers they dream of. They speak in Lisp, the language of the endless nest. They believe that if you describe the world clearly enough in code, the world will change to match it.

The Remembered City

Travelers recall this city as a smell: hot tin and rosin flux. It is the scent of something being fixed, or something being born. It is a city where "why not?" is a stronger architectural force than gravity.