Are there any smart city proposals in the western hemisphere being pushed by someone other than data mining companies and the politicians they’ve “lobbied”?
Hypothesis: reshaping cities to be attractive to pedestrians will be the “insight” of this data mining, and the “ideal” city will look suspiciously like what city planners suggest today, plaigerized, not replicated.
Meh…I actually wonder if getting enough people on board to reshape cities for people, instead of cars, would be worth the loss of privacy? I mean … Even if big data were valuable to the people being mined, city liveability is something that is studied and ignored already.
“Give me all your data and I will consider following 30 year old suggestions” – politician who is obviously not collecting money from anybody
