The hidden ideology behind the “#smart_city”
Writing for the Verso blog, Adam Greenfield, the author of Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life, parses the unacknowledged ideology that silently shapes the discourse around “smart cites.” Greenfield points out that the technological infrastructure—the software, hardware, and code—proposed for smart cities is too often regarded as politically and morally neutral, when if fact it is informed by a very specific and troubling worldview, one that tends to sees “technology” as inherently good, always and everywhere. Greenfield suggests that we not only need to become aware of the ideology shaping future of smart cities; we also need to intervene to shape them differently. Read an excerpt from his piece below, or the full text here.
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