Last week, at Open University in Heerlen a congress took place to discuss opportunities and risks of the smartification of cities. In my newest blog post, I dealt with one of the threats, the colonialization of our living environment by oligopolistic tech companies like Google, Amazon, Uber and the likes. But I also elaborated on the resistance from towns like Barcelona.
Smart YES! But for whom?
https://hmjvandenbosch.com/2018/12/03/big-data-groot-geld/
Do you think this is smart?