The tales of smart cities

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The 5 tales of
Smart Cities
Marc Pous - Founder @ theThings.IO
marc@thethings.io

Technology is
the answer.
But what is the
question?
As the British architect Cedric Price said in the mid-1960s: “Technolo...

1
First tale of Smart Cities

He is Salvador Allende in 1970 after winning the Chilean presidential elections.

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Stafford Beer was a scientific who created the theory of the cybernetics on the 1950s
.
On the 1970s he envisioned the Via...

This project was called the Cybersin Project and was called by the socialists the 4th
revolution of Socialism. It tried to...

Viable system model
● System 1 in a viable system contains several primary activities. Each System 1
primary activity is i...

More than 500 of this Telex machines where spreaded around Chile to get "real-time"
bidirectional communication between th...

The project Cybersyn was supported by four IBM 360 Computer in the 1970s.

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The project's ultimate goal was to create a network of computers and communications
equipment that would support the manag...

After Pinochet arrived at the power, the project was completely destroyed and
Stafford Beer gave up (probably) the Cybersi...

2
This is the 2nd Smart City tale.

This is a city where some of the rich live in gated communities
while some of the poor in the favelas pirate electricity f...

I.B.M. incorporated its hardware, software, analytics and research.
It created manuals so that the center’s employees coul...

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I.B.M’s Smarter Cities unit has it built a citywide system in Rio De Janeiro that
leverages real-time information to antic...

interdepartmental system for Rio was a far bigger task. I.B.M. approached the
challenge like a general contractor, managin...

As Saskia Sassen points out, there is a further tendency to “make these technologies
invisible, and hence put them in comm...

That remains the Panopticon

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The 3rd Smart City tale

Some of you will remember the Japanese tsunami in 2011.

This tsunami finished with the famous Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
disaster.

This is an example of the radiation emitted by Fukushima 24h after the disaster.

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And this is an example of the information that Japanese citizens could access through
a PDF sheet from the government ever...

On the other hand, this became one of the most famous feeds at Cosm / Pachube /
Xively during the Fukushima disaster. A fa...

Seen that, the hardware japanese hackers began to build open hardware geiger
counters and shared theme among their friends...

Even these sensors could be mobile.

On one hand we had the PDF sheets from the Japanese government and on the
other hand there were real-time information from...

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The 4th Smart City tale

This is a picture of Wall Street in New York city a hundred years ago.

This is a picture of Wall Street nowadays.

Nowadays the trend at Wall Street is called high trading frecuency.

The famous Hotel Carrier from New York is at 60 Hudson Street and is full of
computers connected directly with Wall Street...

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May 6, 2010 Flash Crash
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Flash_Crash#cite_note-phillips-5-11-10-1

30. Latent in the ideology
underwriting the smart city is
the notion that there is one
universal and transcendently
correc...

5
The last Smart City tale

The Computer of the 21st Century, Mark Weiser, 1991
In the 80s and 90s Mark Weiser from the XEROX Park was doing research ...

EveryWare, Adam Greenfield, 2006
Adam Greenfield wrote the book Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous
Computing in 2006...

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The street as platform, Dan Hill, Feb 2008
In 2008 Dan Hill wrote an awesome post on his blog explaining the possibility t...

The Carlo Ratti talks about Smart Cities he creates an analogy between the Formula
1 twenty years ago and now. He describe...

99. The city is not a finite state machine, something
with limited configurations. Networked cities,
therefore, must be un...

The Allegory of the Cave from Plato is the scenario where we are moving nowadays.
Perceiving the reality though displays s...

But there is some people still fighting and trying to describe the Open Internet of
Things rights.

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Challenges

● Transparency and trust of the
political system
● Trust on the public administration
● Crisis of the world finantial syst...

● Health and ageing
● Energy sustainability
● Green mobility
● Climate change
● Demographic shifts
● Sustainable water and...

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Bibliography

● http://es.scribd.com/doc/51537502/The-Java-History-Timeline
● http://www.agocg.ac.uk/brief/java.htm
● http://en.wikipedi...

● http://www.citysdk.eu/
● http://senseable.mit.edu/livesingapore/
● http://opencities.net
● http://opencities.net/sites/o...

● Dan Hill, The street as platform, 2008, http://www.cityofsound.
com/blog/2008/02/the-street-as-p.html
● Kristian KLOECKL...

● Gordon Falconer and Shane Mitchell, Smart City Framework A Systematic
Process for Enabling Smart+Connected Communities, ...

● http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/public-sector/national-local-
government/city-platform/index.html
● http://www.wired...

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