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Cities across the country are implementing smart technologies — with grave implications for our personal freedoms Source: www.salon.com We’ll always have a bug that will save us! See on Scoop.it – Lab404 – Digital Media, Network and Space Lab

In a smart mobility collaboration with IBM researchers, the city of Dublin is integrating data from a citywide network of sensors with geospatial data to identify in real-time the optimal traffic-calming measures to reduce congestion. Source: smartcitiescouncil.com See on Scoop.it – Lab404 – Digital Media, Network and Space Lab

Férias terminando e leituras em andamento e contando…Mas nada de não-ficção, pois a vida é curta. Terminei, ainda vindo de 2014, “Por um outro amor” de Knausgard. Espero agora ansioso o terceiro volume da trilogia para continuar a leitura em português, mas se demorar muito a sair, vou para o Leia mais… »

Every once in a while, I am asked what I “make.” A hack day might require it, or a conference might ask me to describe “what I make” so it can go on my name tag. I’m always uncomfortable with it. I’m uncomfortable with any culture that encourages you take on Leia mais… »

  The smart city is, to many urban thinkers, just a buzzphrase that has outlived its usefulness: ‘the wrong idea pitched in the wrong way to the wrong people’. So why did that happen – and what’s coming in its place, asks Steven Poole Source: www.theguardian.com “Why do smart cities Leia mais… »

  Connecting: Makers from Microsoft Design on Vimeo.

  Aggregate data and decision making are being hoarded by a few technology companies with powerful data infrastructure. Does it have to be this way? Or could we create a future in which this data infrastructure is available for use by anyone in the world? Source: www.technologyreview.com See on Scoop.it Leia mais… »

Em janeiro de 2015 começamos o projeto “AUGMENTED URBANITY AND SMART TECHNOLOGIES: HOW “SMART” ARE OUR CITIES BECOMING?”, vencedor do edital NEWTON FUND (UK) e que reúne pesquisadores das Universidades de Durham e Plymouyth no Reino Unido e da PUC-PR e FACOM-UFBA para discutir o tema das “cidades inteligentes”. Mais Leia mais… »

Source: alias.estadao.com.br Feliz 2015 See on Scoop.it – Lab404 – Digital Media, Network and Space Lab

Routers on 600 buses and taxis allow free Internet access and collect data for city planners. Source: www.technologyreview.com See on Scoop.it – Lab404 – Digital Media, Network and Space Lab