Tinkering Toward Utopia
- P144 “the unchanging receptacle in which the changing parts of the system…can work together.”
As we know, the nowadays population is much large than many years ago. In this case, the city needs efficiency. And in some degree, efficiency force things be simple and clear, which is the opposite to the old cities. Therefore, how to deal with the vivid interesting like old cities and the high efficiency of the new cities? - About Foursquare
Smart cities and foursquare-like apps have some similar points. They could work well when the number of user/citizen is big enough. Because they need the supports from enough volume of data.
Would the scale of city be the obstacles for those cities’ “smartize”? (because the small ones could not get enough data.)
Engaging the Idiot in Participatory Digital Urbanism
- In the TV show Black Mirror, there is a story, in that world, everyone use the social media to show their own sense of social presence, and those ones who don’t use the social media apps are like the foundlings of that world.
In the similar case, in a smart city, would those people who can’t or don’t want use their devices for share data to smart cities be the foundlings? Would they lose some rights then living unhappy in the future smart cities?