Newspeak – “Smart City” Equals Control Grid with a Smile
How will our future cities look?
Imagine a city of the future. Do you see clean streets, flying cars and robots doing all the work?
Or perhaps your vision is more dystopian, with a Big Brother-style authoritarian regime, dark alleys full of crime, and people forced to live in hermetically sealed pods…
Other reading on Which Way is the Proverbial Barbed Wire Fence Facing?:
Agenda 21 Smart Cities are HOT Investments
Center for Neighborhood Technologies
Urbanization Knowledge Partnership
Rockefeller Foundation: Battle for the Control of Smart Cities
Rockefeller Foundation: A Planet of Civic Laboratories (PDF)
Secure Cities and Fusion Centers

