The “smart city” makes infrastructure and surveillance indistinguishable
▻https://reallifemag.com/the-captured-city
You can’t go about your day anymore without tripping over smart stuff — smart refrigerators, smart toothbrushes, smart locks, smart whatever. All this smartness usually amounts to equipping the previously dumb thing with sensors that collect data, software for algorithmic operation, and internet capabilities so it can constantly communicate with other things and be remotely controlled by its owners, makers, and hackers. But what does it mean to apply “smart” to an entire city ? From the (...)
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