Crashing and Hacking the Smart City – zhicheng zhang

  1. the reading gives us an example of the failure of a smart toilet and its backup: the physical button. the physical button is the full function of the normal toilet today, Does the smart city have to need a physical backup with the full function of the normal city? or have a basic backup?
  2. besides the physical backup, since the development of smart city will take part in multiple cities, should a city smart city become a backup for another city?
  3. the reading talks about the third disastrous situation the technology emerges at the wrong time. since right now we have some example of the smart city such as Songdo, Hudson Yards. is it better to build a new city like Songdo, then after the city and the moving in citizen adopt the new technology, then tear down the old one and rebuild?