{"id":1086,"date":"2021-10-27T19:33:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T23:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2021-10-27T19:35:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T23:35:13","slug":"infrastructure-benjamin-cudmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/27\/infrastructure-benjamin-cudmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Infrastructure&#8211;Benjamin Cudmore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defined as the makings of a foundation, infrastructure is closely associated as the back bone of technology. Similarly to the foundation of a building, infrastructure is not usually showcased to technology users. Instead of wires, chips, and casing found in most technology, the infrastructure of modern software is programmed or utilizes &#8220;immaterial labor.&#8221; This form of labor is described as work that is not seen physically, but operates to keep the media running. When I think of infrastructure, I am reminded of\u00a0<em>Tron<\/em> and\u00a0<em>The Matrix,<\/em> two films that utilize technology and programming to make up the foundation of the movie. Kevin Flynn, the programmer of the game in <em>Tron<\/em>, describes his invented world as &#8220;the Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways?&#8221; Through his programming, Kevin created the infrastructure of his game that was ran by his AIs referred to as &#8220;programs.&#8221; Likewise,\u00a0<em>The Matrix<\/em> also revolved around an electronic world where the coding can be seen every time a character tries to plug back into it. Within both of these films there is a glimpse of the invisible infrastructure of which their worlds are consisted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defined as the makings of a foundation, infrastructure is closely associated as the back bone of technology. Similarly to the foundation of a building, infrastructure is not usually showcased to technology users. Instead of wires, chips, and casing found in most technology, the infrastructure of modern software is programmed or utilizes &#8220;immaterial labor.&#8221; This form of labor is described as&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/10\/27\/infrastructure-benjamin-cudmore\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68052],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infrastructure"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}