Smart Cities
- P119 “The street finds its own uses for things – uses the manufacturers never imagined.”
Just like an plastic coca bottle could be modified to a firearms’ silencer, people could also do their own mods on the IoT or open source devices of smart cities. Because those devices are more powerful, then they could be more harmful if they are used in a wrong ways. How to keep the safety in this case? And who have the right and responsibility to manage?
UVS
- P25 “To design something that does not yet exist, if we are not to build it at the same time, requires us to imagine it and represent it, for example on paper, through plans, in maquette form, or through software simulated fly-through.”
Designing a thing for future adventurous, people can not fo recast what will show up in future, such as the newest iPhone can not plugin the newest MacBook anymore due to the usb-c. One adapter could solve the small issue for iThings but would it be the same easy for smart cities forecast design? Do we have or should we build some guide for this kind of design? -
P30 “…a broken system is usually one that attracts the most attention, in part because it appeals to others’ desire to “repair” and also because breaks can enable one to understand better how something should or could work.”
In the same time, a broken system is also one that will attract the destructive desire of people (Broken windows theory). Some open source softwares are lack to enough money for maintaining then have some security issue. If smart cities use the open way to develop, will it face the same problem?