Tinkering Toward Utopia
–The DIY city requires every citizen to work together forward to the same goal, which is ok when everyone does not earn or earn the same benefit. However when someone doesn’t get the same benefit or not satisfy with the benefit, kind like the communist society. How can we keep the city running fore a long period?
Engaging the Idiot in Participatory Digital Urbanism
–When we open an app in the smart phone like iphone, it will ask you if trhe app has the ability to get the data and personal information and send it back to their servers, or running in the background to collect data. Dpes the app developer need to tell the users that it has some risk to send your personal information or data to the serve ?
–For most of people, we use smart devices not only in order to make life easy, but also enjoy the feeling that we can control everything and view all the information of trhe city. However, if the city can talk back and improve itself, how can we make sure that human beings are the controller not controlled by the city?