How viable is to have the benefits of smart cities without all the surveillance apparatus that comes with it in the actual state of the technology and politics?
How viable is to have the benefits of smart cities without all the surveillance apparatus that comes with it in the actual state of the technology and politics?
Doesn’t ‘smart’ implies the action of ‘monitoring’ whatever is being ‘smarted’, in order to be able to react to any event concerning that whatever?
So, data would be collected. The nature of data being to be processed, information would then be gathered about that whatever. And then, people and society being what they are, said data will be used to gain some edge.
It’s a bit like imagining that, unlike all the others, one would remain a nice guy even if becoming a billionaire. That won’t happen. Such levels of fortune implies to be merciless… no matter how generous one can also be.