Multimedia Environments and Security Operations: Expo '70 as a Laboratory of Governance

摘要

In March 1970, the same month that the World Exposition in Osaka opened, the Japanese design journal Dezain published a special issue on the topic of "simulations." A series of illustrations carefully arranged by graphic designer Tsuneyoshi Kimura (known for his satirical constructivist photomontages) presented an array of control rooms outfitted with high-tech information and telecommunications devices. The issue prominently featured photographs: the centralized traffic control room for the newly developed bullet train; the Japanese Self-Defense Forces situation room; and a conference room for corporate executives. These images were juxtaposed with others: film stills, weather charts, computer graphics used to simulate a car crash, and photographs of consumer electronics such as videotape recorders and flat-screen televisions.