What are Smart Cities? | Larissa Suzuki | TEDxUCLWomen

Larissa Suzuki, PhD researcher in Software Systems Engineering with a special interest in ‘Smart Cities', explains how such a concept is built around an emphasis on ‘connections’. Suzuki draws on examples such as Uber and Airbnb to demonstrate its potential to transform our daily lives as we know it today.
Larissa Suzuki is a passionate and award winning Computer Scientist and Entrepreneur at UCL and DCE-Imperial College Business School. Computing and engineering has always fascinated her. Larissa holds a BSc in Computer Science and a Master (MPhil) in Electrical Engineering from University of Sao Paulo. She studied Management Science and Supply Chain Management, and now is a PhD Candidate in Software Systems Engineering at University College London / DCE Imperial College Business School, and was a Visiting PhD Student at MIT. Since 2006 she’s been actively working towards increasing the representation of women in Computer Science. She is the founder of UCLWE and UCLWE Lean IN, which are dedicated to provide support to the professional, personal and academic development of all women engineers at UCL. She co-organises the London Hopper Colloquium and is part of the poster committee of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.
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[@effess8698]

London is nowhere near the most polluted capital city in the world. Tottenham Court Road is a lot easier breathing than New Delhi or Beijing.

[@doleswar]

I would you like to thank Larissa for sharing this. It is not that I agree with her but it indicates the dangers of blind faith on new technologies. I have very simple questions for anyone who think they are smart and can change the world. The natural world is always in order and have been for existence for how many billions years. World is very complex organism. Our ignorance about the natural world is billions times higher than our knowledge. How ecosystem works, how our body works, how institutions work, how sun works, how universe works? you intervene blindly without understanding how things works. Look at our rivers, ocean, forest, ecosytem, everything is going down because of our smartness. If you have enough food to eat, clothing to wear and your basic needs are met, why do you need smart city. It is your ego that seeks more and more which will never satisfied by technology or good car or good houses. Don't we have all those in modern times and more people have stress, mental illness, so many disorder from early age. I have a good suggestion for you Larissa. If you have met your basic needs, you just adopt a dog or cat or any pet that you like and start patting on them. or have a baby and play with her/him. If we don't pollute, our body is already clean. If we don't pollute our rivers are already clean. If you don't pollute, our environment is alreay clean. What you really need in your life is you have them already. Thank you.

[@youdontknowme5461]

big brother is watching you...

[@lucapancaldi367]

So weird... the name is russian, the surname is japanese but the gal is brazilian... and she talks, as a computer scientist, about a theme really solid and hard: cities. Numbers, numbers, numbers, flow charts, figures etcetc... Smart cities are the nightmare of our future.

[@nathancragg6202]

Brazil at one point had the second largest Japanese population in the world, specifically Sao Paulo

[@gustawolvufrj]

Larissa is an ordinary name in Brazil. In addition, asian descendants are spread across the country

[@mellisausavi6726]

thank you

[@juanpablogiraldopalacio3089]

It is a great presentation about the future of the cities and how we can solve important problems like pollution and waste of water. Digitalization offers big opportunities to change the way of making business and create innovation.

[@MegaVinnys]

Brazilian woman, we are proud!

[@greatmcluhansghost7134]

maybe Paolista!

[@samnaghavi9775]

Is it 300 billion euros waste only in london or entire world?

[@alokpriyadarshi4894]

Nice presentation. Thanks a lot

[@worldofenigma1]

This is looking like a solution that is looking for a problem to solve.

[@prakashkk2771]

Cities are usually made them self.. not build most of the time..

[@marcustate3513]

This is all at the concession of your freedoms

[@vasilgeorgiev1838]

Isn't this something similar to the concept of Customerso?

[@vishdubey8531]

its too theoretical where are designs..madam just some statistics and we can make billion euro smart city..

[@youdontknowme5461]

The amount of times she said "we" as if we're some sort of collective... scary

[@six-gun]

She means the Borg - all connected via their brain chips to the 5G internet of things - the chips Elon Musk (and his masters) want you to have put in. Controlling all human beings except you will cease to be human once you have a chip inside your head. She said everyone would be in a city - there would need to be 4 Earth's to cope with the numbers - (a lie) but code for global depopulation. And so it goes on - Smart cities sound good - Prisons for zombies would be a more accurate term.

[@butthurt1142]

5:20 London is the worst capital city in the world for air pollution? Let's see some evidence for that. I don't dispute that London is polluted but I suspect Riyadh, Delhi and Beijing are much higher up the table.

[@six-gun]

Of course that is a lie - there will be many lies on the road to the global control grid.....sorry smart cities.

[@marcustate3513]

Digital prisons

[@tushars9861]

she looks like that guy from SNL

[@eeeeeeeeeeeeeelli]

Tushar s nick kroll!

[@mr.o8539]

Stefan!!!

[@fredschwentafsky6993]

Smart cities for unhappy people.

[@jackcross8807]

Fred Schwentafsky Ha, maybe! We need a free more positive - psychology TED Talks for them, eh?

[@2KCustomerService]

She sounds robotic

[@gifyifhkhmcucyk6865]

Just like humanity will be in the future. Isnt the coming panopticon dystopia so wonderful?

[@CloudOmegaVII]

Smart City is harmful, the greater the dependence of High tech the greater the disaster when it fails. yes it makes things easier for everyone including those who would control our lives. it also makes it easier to lose our humanity. Big Brother is watching you.

[@allisondoak9425]

You can promote technology and resilience at the same time, you can even use technology to further efforts towards resilience in urban environments.

[@issu6455]

thats great and all but the technology of the hammer, the calculator, the telescope have not failed us in catastrophic ways. we should be wary of people misusing technology, of course, but this is and has always been the case.

[@pureblood662]

Creepshow

[@CloudOmegaVII]

Smart City is harmful, the greater the dependence of High tech the greater the disaster when it fails. yes it makes things easier for everyone including those who would control our lives. it also makes it easier to lose our humanity. Big Brother is watching you.