Smart cities for 11 billion people: Mitchell Joachim at TEDxBerlin

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[@tommorel8902]

all the answers are in nature ...great work

[@0zoneTherapyW0rks]

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.” ~. Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages, 1970

[@amingraphy1964]

When we talk about Smart Cities, the first thing that comes to mind is the substantial use of Information and Communication technologies and then use of social capital to exploit these technologies. The approach here seems different to me. A big issue for me to understand is the concept of agency in transition to smart cities. Do mayors and city managers have actually any authority and agency for shaping a transition from old to smart city? Or city is just the level of observation by considering all institutions and policies as exogeneous factors?

[@exposeagenda2134]

Amin Dehdarian It is Agenda 21. Complete control.

[@sydneydwoskin4950]

i love this guy

[@onlihuman13]

exactly what i am thinking

[@Ark601]

bjarke ingles too said the idea of bringing together jane jacobs and robert moses

[@arnogermond5473]

Excellent! (maybe except the part on E. coli which looks like more a bit fantasist to me, as an evolutionary microbiologist, but I agree that biological experimentations could help to model sustainability. We live, after all, in a closed-environment, and reproduce at an exponential rate!). Well done!

[@carburst]

Great talk. I designed a folding "car" in 1991, and have 70,000 "local" cars from the company I started rolling around the world today. I wish more of Mitchell's idea were being realized. Here's the TED talk I did on getting traction with smart mobility: vimeo.com/m/78749701

[@huegebauls8702]

"moves like sheep n flocks together"

[@ulangi]

What is he talking about?

[@0zoneTherapyW0rks]

Libertarians' dystopia on how to replace nations with privately owned "charter cities". The transnationalist class wants to shut down government permanently to end democracy, rights, environmental protections, safety inspections, freedom to roam, home and car ownership, citizenship. To the libertarians who created and still support neoliberalism, (even though it's been thoroughly discredited as an economic policy since the 2008 crash), "freedom" means ECONOMIC freedom only. "In a libertarian society, there is no commons or public space. There are property lines, not borders. When it comes to real property and physical movement across such real property, there are owners, guests, licensees, business invitees and trespassers - not legal and illegal immigrants.” ~ Jeff Deist, president of the Mises Institute

[@barrycarter7274]

Don't feel like he actually said anything of real use...