This document discusses the debate around how smart cities should be and the role of new technologies in civic life. On one side, technologies that automate and optimize city systems through sensors, big data, and other tools could help address budget issues and allow cities to better adapt. However, others argue this could infringe on civil liberties if people are constantly tracked, not everyone has access to the same tools, and serendipity is lost. The benefits of a "dumb city" in terms of inconveniences must also be considered. The document calls for getting the user experience of new technologies integrated into civic infrastructure right to avoid creating an oppressive "Minority Report world."

1. SMART CITIES:
How smart is too smart?
MARISSA GLUCK
Director, Huge Ideas, Huge| Co-founder, De Lab
CHRISTINE OUTRAM
Senior Inventionist, Deutsch LA | Founder, City Innovation Group

2. #smartcitydebate
JOIN THE CONVERSATION:

3. SO TELL ME:
What makes a
city smart?

4. Is it this?

5. Or this?
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6. Or could it even be
this?
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7. Perhaps, it is about all of
these things, and how
smart phones, sensors,
big data and the like, are
supporting or hindering
our civic ambitions.

8. We shape our tools and
then our tools shape us.
BUT WE MUST ALSO REMEMBER:
MARSHALL MCLUHAN, PHILOSOPHER, FUTUROLOGIST AND MEDIA PIONEER

9. WHICH LEAVES US WITH THE QUESTION:
How will these new tools
and devices that aim to
automate, optimize, inclu
de or educate
fundamentally change
civic life?

10. And are there any
benefits to the dumb city
and all its
inconveniences?

11. Let’s Duel

12. IN THE LEFT CORNER: IN THE RIGHT CORNER:
Cities are broke. Using technologies to
automate and optimize our city systems
makes good financial sense.
We have entered the “measured era” the
more technology we use, the more we can
measure and the more we can adapt to
our findings and make better decisions.
New technologies connect us to our
interests, our surroundings and other
people like never before.
We are on the verge of a new architectural
language: buildings can build themselves,
spaces can speak back, and information
can integrated into our surroundings, when
and where we need it.
Optimization and efficiency is fine, but
what about civil liberties? Do I want to be
tracked and recorded?
Not everyone has access to the same
tools and devices. When we make
decisions based on data, we are missing
out on a representative voice.
Where did serendipity go? Should I only
be making connections if it is mediated
through technology?
A Minority Report world could suck. If
technology will be integrated into our
surroundings, we must get the user
experience design right.
THE DIRECTOR, HUGE IDEAS
MARISSA GLUCK
Director, Huge Ideas, Huge+
Journalist, Researcher, City Lover
Founder of De LaB (Design East of La Brea)
Alumna of USC/LSE
THE INVENTIONIST
CHRISTINE OUTRAM
Senior Inventionist, Deutsch LA +
Creative Technologist, Architect, City Lover
Founder of City Innovation Group
Alumna of MIT

13. Who won?
Who’s next?
TELL US:
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