I Ran Into Hermes On The Road
I don't ride my bike all over the place because it's ecological or worthy. I mainly do it for the sense of freedom and exhilaration. - David Byrne These are preliminary notes on what a different kind of traffic app would feel like. Different because that old coder Hermes isn't in on the development of this one. Old Hermes The cunning Hermes, as Lewis Hyde has shared, has enjoyed quite a life. Wherever trade and exchange and money and the movement of merchandise need protection, he is with us still. Here is Hyde from The Gift: If we imagine an ancient road at dusk, a road passing through no-man's land and connecting two towns but itself neither here nor there, we will begin to imagine the anci...