Los análisis críticos sobre el proyecto de Sidewalk Labs (la filial inmobiliaria de Google) para crear una Smart City en Toronto, casi siempre se fijan en su aspecto más “orwelliano”: la masiva e injustificada recogida de datos personales. Pero pocos han reparado en la estafa que supone la propuesta de vivienda en la Smart City de Google.
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Consider a future scenario when social and digital inclusion are interconnected in the lives of most citizens. Think of this as an optimistic scenario in which higher social inclusion is enabled by new bridges across the digital divide.
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Urban data is an informal description for all the data that is collected in cities, about people or about things. It can be used to make our life better, but, as Black Mirror shows, our personal data (our “digital fingerprint”) can be used to make our life impossible, too
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Amongst the “avant garde” revolutionary intellectuals, the situationists were one of a kind. Though they were few, they often were waging battles under the leadership of a young Guy Débord to surpass other contemporary movements such as letterism and surrealism. Their views on urbanism or automation were anticipatory.
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‘Cause not everything it’s about on-line reading, check out this autumn’s events where we can meet in person:
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Los datos urbanos (el big data que producimos gracias a nuestra vida on-line y off-line en la ciudad) van a
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Innovation Districts are perhaps the most visible physical manifestation of global innovation flows. Yet we don’t believe this to be the final destination. We believe that if we’re to avoid perverse effects, town planning policies that promote economic development need to be decentralized
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