“Buggy, Brittle and Bugged,” Smart Cities
- “Today, we routinely send anonymous bug reports to software companies when our desktop crashes.” If this is a portable model to debug smart cities in the future, will smart citizens be prepared? Although we report these bugs, it is maybe too late because the bugs may have already lead to a crashing of the system. In this situation, should we rethink a new way to build a smart city? It may not be top- bottom or bottom- top that simple. Maybe we could start to build smart citizens first?
- As the book mentioned, in the parts of the world, different countries face the same issue – surveillance, but they have different feedbacks. It brings the idea- situated smart cities. When smart cities are crashing, and every smart cities are different. Should we make all back-up ways all the same or we must situate back-up ways for specific smart cities in the world when smart cities face the same bug?
An Emerging US (and World) Threat
- The author mentioned “Cyber Security Problems” and also gave “Recommendations” for basic problems of smart cities. Maybe there will be disastrous If we change all cities in this world to be smart cities one day, would we have the possibility to change them back to current? When we think about how to back up our technology masterpiece – the smart cities, should we think throughout for years how could we make a smart city(test bed) without bugs before we make the second one or we could predict and solve these bugs at least?