City of dreams

• Autores: Paul Marks
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3156, 2017, pág. 24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Marks talks about the downside of urban revolution. The premise goes like this: people are told that, if they are to fight climate change while embracing mass urbanization, they need to live in sensor-stuffed places designed to make their lives hyper-efficient. The reason, ostensibly, is to make cities more sustainable, with services such as energy, water and transport run by AI, in turn informed by all-seeing, all-hearing 5G wireless networks. Fine. Except there is too little talk of who will govern such cities. And many of the plans seem to rely heavily on technologies, such as driverless cars, that are far from mature. But the biggest problem is that smart cities sound about as digitally secure as that boat full of holes, the internet of things.