Check out this article about a unit of the Parsons School of Design, which is developing some kind of mapping tool “that can rapidly search open data sources and then present the information geographically, in real-time.” Of course the students are upset. (And say the usual range of stupidities about the liberal and pacifist tradition at the New School — let’s just say that I don’t think the German Jewish intellectuals who came after ’33 were pacifists, and they definitely weren’t “progressives” in the sense that these kids think they were.) But actually, the technology is interesting, and the questions about the nature of this complicity would be interesting to explore.