[1st-mile-nm] Stop Saying 'Smart Cities'

[Leonard Pascual]

This is why the they need to be led by Integrators not just the big
communication organizations

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 9:43 AM, Mimbres Communications <mimcom at sw-ei.com>
wrote:

> Digital stardust won’t magically make future cities more affordable or
> resilient.
>
> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/
> stupid-cities/553052/
>
> ...the cities of the future won’t be “smart,” or well-engineered, cleverly
> designed, just, clean, fair, green, sustainable, safe, healthy, affordable,
> or resilient. They won’t have any particularly higher ethical values of
> liberty, equality, or fraternity, either. The future smart city will be the
> internet, the mobile cloud, and a lot of weird paste-on gadgetry, deployed
> by City Hall, mostly for the sake of making towns more attractive to
> capital.
>
> Whenever that’s done right, it will increase the soft power of the more
> alert and ambitious towns and make the mayors look more electable. When
> it’s done wrong, it’ll much resemble the ragged downsides of the previous
> waves of urban innovation, such as railways, electrification, freeways, and
> oil pipelines. There will also be a host of boozy side effects and toxic
> blowback that even the wisest urban planner could never possibly expect.
>
>
>
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