Smart Cities – $100 Billion Dollar Jackpot
- “ The infrastructure is being laid, but the ideas and software that will choreograph it will require years, if not decades, of research and development in test beds like Songdo.” From the book, to say Songdo is really a good start of smart cities, but in some cases to say Songdo is like a test bed, a test of smart cities. How about the next smart city? What kind of information could be extracted from Songdo to improve infrastructure construction for next smart city?(environment?)
- “Yet while untethered networks are the weakest links in the plumbing smart cities, they are the most valuable.” When machines that become to us, are we become to machines?
Smart Urbanism – Test bed as urban epistemology
- “These individuals can be anywhere in the world; the territory is plastic and it does not need to be occupied” How to understand “territory is plastic”? Does it mean a smart city could also be plastic?