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New Babylon was unequivocally anticapitalist; it was formed by the belief that pervasive and aware technologies would somehow, someday, release us from the drudgery of labor.

The Smart City Is a Perpetually Unrealized Utopia

technologyreview.com

For technology to achieve the positive impacts of which it is capable, we must dismiss naive dreams of being smart and instead incorporate technology into holistic social and political visions.

The Smart Enough City

Ben Green

The way that a lot of these agencies are set up is they are very [siloed]. So land use folks think about land use, and transportation folks think about transportation. The degree that different disciplines can have access to and use from other disciplines can actually really help identify better levers or better policies. I don't know if that’s a natural thing for a lot of agencies to think like that because their org structures aren't oriented like that.

Replica CEO Talks Data Privacy and Lessons Learned From Portland Metro Project | Smart Cities Dive

Cailin Crowe

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