5/23/2023 0 Comments Archicad 24 bimUnlike a map reduced to a scale that can be held in one’s hands, or in Borges’s case, walked upon beneath one’s feet, a digital twin is a virtual, three-dimensional model of a building, or even an entire city. ![]() Over the past three decades, advances in technology have fostered another kind of representation of a physical object or system not too dissimilar to Borges’s map: the digital twin. This map is so detailed and precise that it becomes a perfect replica of the territory, with the result that it becomes useless for practical purposes because it replaces the very thing that it is intended to represent. ![]() In a short story by Jorge Luis Borges entitled “On Exactitude in Science,” an empire is described in which cartography has become so advanced that a map is created at the same size as the empire itself.
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