Program Earth
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- Page 246 “Sensors are also not the only source for data generated to manage urban systems—alternative data sources include both static and dynamic data collected from social media streams, participatory-sensing systems, and predictive and strategic modeling capabilities.”
For the direction of future smart cities. Should we try to make sensors become the only source for the collection of data? And is it good for the “previous” other sources?
- Page 256 “This point draws on Simondon’s discus- sion of how relations are not formed through the adding up of individuals to form collectives. Rather, collectives are transindividuated into distinct entities, and it is this mode of parsing collective potential that in-forms individuals and relations.”How to understand this “relation”? Also, as we know, in sometime, the collective’s activities will cover some individuals’, even some important ones’ activities. So how to deal with this?
Smart Urbanism
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Page 18 “First, a technocratic approach is highly reductionist and functionalist, always based on a limited selection of data and shaped by the formulation of algorithms, and fails to recognise the wider effects of culture, politics, policy, governance and capital in shaping city life and urban systems.”
The limited data is not always work bad. For example, people’s eyes will collect lots of information for visual, but their brains can not deal with those mass. Thus, the brain actually only use limited information from eyes’ collection, and it already enough to support the normal life of a human. So, why base on a limited selection of data will be a problem?
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