The Tyranny of Convenience
“The growth of convenience — as an ideal, as a value, as a way of life — it is worth asking what our fixation with it is doing to us and to our country.”
Chinese Police Begin Using Specialized Eyewear to ID Faces
China is using an AI camera system to see and identify their 1.3 billion citizens.
What’s New In Location Intelligence For 2018?
66% of enterprises rank Location Intelligence as either critical or very important to ongoing revenue growth strategies.
It could happen here: How China’s social credit system demonstrates the future of social control in smart cities
The Chinese-Western feedback loop involves each worsening the other’s worst ideas, lather-rinse-repeating in the most dystopian of fashion. China’s social control is just neoliberal capitalism’s social control, plus ten years.
Why HPC Matters: Smart Cities
High performance computing (HPC) is going to be a difference maker in the coming years.
” The scale of data involved in complex, long-term modeling will require extremely powerful supercomputers, including next-generation exascale systems, to drive long-range forecasting for cities.“
Duisburg signs smart city partnership with Huawei
Duisburg Germany has signed a Memo of Understanding (MoU) with Huawei to work together on smart city development.
Plans:
- Expand the city’s WLAN network.
- Creating intelligent classroom, intelligent street lamps.
- Supply networks and traffic management, to cloud based eGovernment solutions for citizens.
- 5G LTE technology and wireless broadband networks, which are required for autonomous driving, smart logistics and Industry 4.0.
Stop Saying ‘Smart Cities’
“Smart cities” merely want to be perceived as smart, when what they actually need is quite different.