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To achieve that braking safety, the subway’s signal architecture works around the principle of ‘two-block control.’ Every track on the subway is cut up into blocks, electrically isolated sections of line that can detect occupancy by sending current through the axles of passing trains. In two-block control, the signal system keeps at least one unoccupied block – really, however many blocks you need to provide that braking distance with a margin for error – between one train and the next.
How We Slowed the Subway Down
~ uday schultz
The Japanese philosophy of
[Mingei](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mingei)
was another movement we should heed. Developed in the 1920's, it championed the beauty of everyday items made by “nameless craftsmen” with traditional techniques and local materials. This pushed against the prevailing cultural trends of moderinism that valued “high art” made by famous artists.
Folk Interfaces
Maggie Appleton
So, does the creation and destruction of information have any direct relationship to the beginning and ending of objects? Almost never. “Create” and “destroy”, when applied to information, really instruct the system to “perceive” and “forget”.
Data and Reality
William Kent
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