Smart Cities Big Data and the Meaninglessness of Mere Information: We attempt to take down the idea that more data is the solution to our problems. Without wisdom, and without an ethical frame, numbers mean nothing.
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Smart cities, “big data”, and the meaninglessness of mere information.
Links
- The metadata of experience, the experience of metadata – Nick Carr
- China’s New Frontiers in Dystopian Tech – Rene Chun at The Atlantic
- “Smart” refigerators DDOS-ing things
- Redlining:
- Wikipedia
- Modern-day redlining: How banks block people of color from homeownership
- See also: Ta-Nehisi Coates’ discussion of redlining in his much-discussed piece in The Atlantic, “The Case For Reparations”
Music
- “Sharalee” by Jamison Isaak, a.k.a. Teen Daze
- “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho.
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- Andrew Fallows
- Kurt Klassen
- Jake Grant
- Jeremy W. Sherman
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