Jan 22, 2020 | Detroit, Featured, Smart Cities
Digital surveillance has grown exponentially in the last few years, and with it the scope and scale of security apparatus deployed across urban environments. How does the visibility—or invisibility—of these technologies elicit performative acts from people at each end...
Jan 15, 2020 | Smart Cities
Smart cities require technology, but that technology is already here, according to panelist Edward Knapp, chief technology officer of the American Tower Corporation during a CES 2020 session. The next step toward developing successful smart cities involves the...
Jan 2, 2020 | Smart Cities
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.” These words of Mark Weiser, the influential godfather of ubiquitous computing, opened his remarkably...
Dec 19, 2019 | Smart Cities
It’s almost as if the community was dreamed up as part of a movie set. But the Suzhou Industrial Park is real and part of a cooperative effort with Singapore. It is a carefully planned area on 27 square miles that a quarter-century earlier had been farmland. Dozens of...
Dec 12, 2019 | Climate, Featured, Smart Cities
There is no longer any credible reason to deny our part in the climate crisis. We are now facing the destruction of vital ecosystems, and every year 12.6 million people die because of environmental pollution. Cutting edge smart city technologies may be our most useful...
Dec 5, 2019 | Climate, Featured, Smart Cities
There is no longer any credible reason to deny our part in the climate crisis. We are now facing the destruction of vital ecosystems, and every year 12.6 million people die because of environmental pollution. Cutting edge smart city technologies may be our most useful...
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