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The level of fear and loathing around smart cities in cooker circles is next level. Why? Because their imaginations are a wasteland of violent fantasies and these people are just walking necks looking for a boot. So they make one up.
Most of the discourse around smart cities is bullshit. In this episode we look at what a smart city actually is, what we should be worried about and what we absolutely should not be worried about.
Concerns: Police overreach. Privacy. Private companies integrating into government.
Not a concern: The term Internet of Things. Councils using universities to harvest opinions on social media to improve services. The improvement of services in general.
This was a bit of a long one - would have been 5 hours if I were given the chance, this topic is huge.
Supplementary episode coming with a few case examples of cookers using smart city projects to drum up fear, install a new 'climate lockdown' narrative and bizarrely (I don't know why I'm surprised anymore) turn cookers into holocaust deniers.
Enjoy!
By Jack the Insider and Joel Hill5
66 ratings
The level of fear and loathing around smart cities in cooker circles is next level. Why? Because their imaginations are a wasteland of violent fantasies and these people are just walking necks looking for a boot. So they make one up.
Most of the discourse around smart cities is bullshit. In this episode we look at what a smart city actually is, what we should be worried about and what we absolutely should not be worried about.
Concerns: Police overreach. Privacy. Private companies integrating into government.
Not a concern: The term Internet of Things. Councils using universities to harvest opinions on social media to improve services. The improvement of services in general.
This was a bit of a long one - would have been 5 hours if I were given the chance, this topic is huge.
Supplementary episode coming with a few case examples of cookers using smart city projects to drum up fear, install a new 'climate lockdown' narrative and bizarrely (I don't know why I'm surprised anymore) turn cookers into holocaust deniers.
Enjoy!

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