The Open-Source Metropolis
- From this chapter of the book, author’s main argument is coming from “The technology giants building smart cities are mostly paying attention to technology, not people, mostly focused on cost effectiveness and efficiency, mostly ignoring the creative process of harnessing technology at the grass roots.” Does he mean technology is not important or to say technology should not be the most issues for the construction processes of smart cities? Even if we move the concerned eyes to the people, we cannot really care about them without proper technology. In other words, people are the foundations of smart cities as the grass roots, but technology is water and nutrition.
- In this book, “Pie in the sky” which means free WIFI. There is a competition between hackers and big monitored companies who both are building WIFI but one is free one is need to be paid. Who will win in the end? We don’t know yet. Smart city belongs to be open and free for people. But we still need governments who are manager currently, companies who are “making money for themselves” currently and free hackers of people who are fighting for smart cities. If all companies and governments are disappeared, do hackers really manage and create smart city successfully?
Urban Versioning System 1.0
- “ The first consequence because of distinct the process of design from construction is a basic assumption that building only begins once the design process is complete.” This is a very interesting view for smart cities. The smart cities are very different from normal architectural view. The construction process and design process are almost moving forward together. When we use Arduino to making LEDs becoming a signal for detecting water temperature in the mean time we could engage in build the configuration by sensor and LEDs. Does this consequence change the way to build smart city? Does the way should be designing first and constructions later when we engage in the process of constructing a smart city?