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Re: Welcome to the neighbourhood, have you read the terms of service?
#2Kind of hoping Charles Stross finds some time to comment on this. I know he's written a blog post on what happens to cities as microprocessors get tiny and cheap, but I can't find it right now. (Doesn't help that his blog seems to be taking about 15 seconds to load each page.)
Re: Welcome to the neighbourhood, have you read the terms of service?
#3Kind of hoping Charles Stross finds some time to comment on this. I know he's written a blog post on what happens to cities as microprocessors get tiny and cheap, but I can't find it right now. (Doesn't help that his blog seems to be taking about 15 seconds to load each page.)
His latest book, Dark State, has quite a bit of scary speculation on this as well. There's a depiction of a SWAT raid in it that's a fun read until you realize it's only a few years off from potential reality.
Re: Welcome to the neighbourhood, have you read the terms of service?
#4Kind of hoping Charles Stross finds some time to comment on this. I know he's written a blog post on what happens to cities as microprocessors get tiny and cheap, but I can't find it right now. (Doesn't help that his blog seems to be taking about 15 seconds to load each page.)
you could tweet it to him at @cstross as he's a prolific twitterer.
Re: Welcome to the neighbourhood, have you read the terms of service?
#5Kind of hoping Charles Stross finds some time to comment on this. I know he's written a blog post on what happens to cities as microprocessors get tiny and cheap, but I can't find it right now. (Doesn't help that his blog seems to be taking about 15 seconds to load each page.)
His latest book, Dark State, has quite a bit of scary speculation on this as well. There's a depiction of a SWAT raid in it that's a fun read until you realize it's only a few years off from potential reality.
Oh man, I've been waffling about whether to read it now, or to wait until the final book of the trilogy is written so I can binge the whole series.
Re: Welcome to the neighbourhood, have you read the terms of service?
#6You can have a smart city without assigning a unique identifier to each individual between collections of data (ie by relying on aggregate data instead), or using the equivalent of a session identifier.
For instance, a trashcan filling up can correlate to the number of people who use public transport, but you don't have to say person X took the bus then used the trash can.
Re: Welcome to the neighbourhood, have you read the terms of service?
#7You can have a smart city without assigning a unique identifier to each individual between collections of data (ie by relying on aggregate data instead), or using the equivalent of a session identifier. For instance, a trashcan filling up can correlate to the number of people who use public transport, but you don't have to say person X took the bus then used the trash can.
But you can correlate the timeseries of crosswalk events that leave from one city block, follow a regular pattern, then a bus boarding, then a bus departure, then a regular trash-can event.
Do a thing regularly, or have enough "anonymized" sensors with sufficient resolution, and one can mine a lot from apparently very little.
Re: Welcome to the neighbourhood, have you read the terms of service?
#8Kind of hoping Charles Stross finds some time to comment on this. I know he's written a blog post on what happens to cities as microprocessors get tiny and cheap, but I can't find it right now. (Doesn't help that his blog seems to be taking about 15 seconds to load each page.)
His latest book, Dark State, has quite a bit of scary speculation on this as well. There's a depiction of a SWAT raid in it that's a fun read until you realize it's only a few years off from potential reality.
Looks like you meant Dark State: https://amzn.com/B072TZC99F
Re: Welcome to the neighbourhood, have you read the terms of service?
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
His latest book, Dark State, has quite a bit of scary speculation on this as well. There's a depiction of a SWAT raid in it that's a fun read until you realize it's only a few years off from potential reality.
Looks like you meant Dark State: https://amzn.com/B072TZC99F
Ack, yes! Thanks.
Re: Welcome to the neighbourhood, have you read the terms of service?
#10It seems almost a given that whenever the term "smart" is applied to anything, it's something that tries to monitor, monetise, or otherwise resist your attempts at controlling it --- instead, it attempts to control you.
There's enough dystopian science fiction out there that the only thing I think when I hear "smart" is "No thanks."