Unintended Consequences

Green on the Empire State Building by paulaloe, on flickrFrom the NY Daily News via the Gothamist. Claims there’s a car dead zone around the Empire State Building.

…people suspect that it’s the presence of the multitude of radio and tv transmitters on the building’s 203-foot spire …jamming key-less locking systems and automotive disabling security systems.

Interactions among hard and soft technologies having an unintended effect on people — or bullshit.

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