Re:The Case for 'Dumb' Cities
by bobthepanda on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @01:15PM
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We have an attempt at a smart city already, and it hasn't gone well: https://www.citylab.com/life/2018/06/sleepy-in-songdo-koreas...
it doesn't seem that the smart aspect of it is the problem there though, but rather bad planning and the expectation that smart alone would attract people to move there.
the discussion continues here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20475258
turns out there is quite some criticism about the article
we only know the effect of some of the pieces. we know about the effects of surveillance. of insecure technology, data leaks, etc. in other words, what we do know is that the technology is not ready yet for a smart city to be safe.
but apart from that we don't know how it will work out beyond that. for that we need to experiment. someone needs to participate in that experiment so we can learn from it.
is it time already to experiment now? i don't know. we could wait for the technology to be safer. but do we know what the actual threats are? even that we need to test out.