1. In Townsend’s book, he introduces a bottom to top way to form the smart city. by using the example of “Foursquare”, he shows how personal location data reshape the city. A top to the bottom structure has stricter control, the bottom to top structure gives more freedom to the citizen. these two approaches seem to be a conflict to each other, thus, in the development of the smart city, should we have to choose one of the approaches, or is there a way can mix these two together?
2. In Tonwnsend’s reading, it mentions that by using the search keyword data and the IP address, google is able to analysis the trend of the disease’s spread. Is the search keyword recognized as a part of our privacy? or since we type the keyword into google, and use it to search, we give up this part of privacy?
3. Since a bottom to top system setups, data is easy to access for everyone which allows the citizen to take apart in the city building, however, it also allows crime to use it. Should the government take the responsibility to manage the usage of the data， or let the citizen do it with spontaneity?