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Three mistakes we’re still making about Smart Cities
(David Willets, MP, Minister for Universities and Science, launches the UK Government’s Smart Cities Forum) (I was asked this week to contribute my view of the present state of the Smart Cities...
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Creating successful Smart Cities in 2014 will be an economic, financial and...
Why insurers, pension funds and politics will be more important to Smart Cities in 2014 than “Living Labs” or technology. (The 2nd Futurama exhibition at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. In 50 years’...
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No-one wants top-down, technology-driven cities. They’d be dumb, not smart.
(William Robinson Leigh’s 1908 painting “Visionary City” envisaged future cities constructed from mile-long buildings of hundreds of stories connected by gas-lit skyways for trams, pedestrians and...
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From concrete to telepathy: how to build future cities as if people mattered
(An infographic depicting realtime data describing Dublin – the waiting time at road junctions; the location of buses; the number of free parking spaces and bicycles available to hire; and sentiments...
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6 inconvenient truths about Smart Cities
(When cities forget about people: La Defense, Paris, photographed by Phil Beard) (I recently took the difficult decision to resign from IBM after nearly 20 years to become IT Director for Smart Data...
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Reclaiming the “Smart” agenda for fair human outcomes enabled by technology
(Lucie & Simon’s “Silent World“, a series of photographs of cities from which almost all trace of people has been removed.) Over the last 5 years, I’ve often used this blog to explore definitions...
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4 ways to get on with building Smart Cities. And the societal failure that...
(William Robinson Leigh’s 1908 painting “Visionary City” envisaged future cities constructed from mile-long buildings of hundreds of storeys connected by gas-lit skyways for trams, pedestrians and...
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Why Smart Cities still aren’t working for us after 20 years. And how we can...
(The futuristic “Emerald City” in the 1939 film “The Wizard of Oz“. The “wizard” who controls the city is a fraud who uses theatrical technology to disguise his lack of real power.) (I was recently...
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A Plan for Digital Cities
The “Festival of Love” on London’s Southbank in 2014. Sometimes unattractive technologies – in this case concrete – can create great places. As an IT Architect in the 1990s, I used Design Patterns as a...
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5G and the (Not Quite So) New Normal
Isaac Asmiov’s 1957 novel “The Naked Sun“, set on the planet Solaria whose inhabits interact with each other solely through “trimensional images”, and avoid personal contact (This post was originally...
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