In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality. Professor of Experimental Digital Media at University of Waterloo; Director, City as Platform lab. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. From engaging with citizens to figure out what they need and why they don't have it yet to designing systems where everyday lives are fully at the center of things, Green's The Smart Enough City provides a new framework for social responsibility in tech not rooted in abstract ethical tenets but grown from practices he put to the test himself. Please try again. With so many problems to choose from, and so many options to help alleviate them, city officials often look to technology, first, and policy, well, also first. Monday, 21 October, 2019. Here's how we do this! To do this, Green examines various case study examples, while offering philosophical and critical histories of the city-related technologies that have led us to this era. There's a problem loading this menu right now. He studies the implementation and impacts of data science in local governments, with a focus on “smart cities” and the criminal justice system. Ben Green (@benzevgreen) is a PhD Candidate in Applied Math at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. Ben Green, a Ph.D. candidate in applied math at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science, is the author of “The Smart Enough City: … Amidst all the hype about what a smart city is, Ben Green recounts a cautionary tale about the limits to how technology can improve our cities by increasing our quality of life. In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology; taking an exclusively technical view of urban life will lead to cities that appear smart but under the surface are rife with injustice and inequality. In the latest episode of the SmartCitiesWorld podcast, we talk to Ben Green, author of The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future. Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be "smart enough," using technology to promote democracy and equity. When we determine our relationship to any new technology, there is a middle ground between the doe-eyed technophile and the intransigent Luddite. Excellent read, leads to great discussions! Green's book is a deeply thoughtful, thoroughly ethical, and technically precise account of how big data, AI, and machine learning can promote more efficient and livable cities without sacrificing civil liberties or serendipity. MIT Press began publishing journals in 1970 with the first volumes of Linguistic Inquiry and the Journal of Interdisciplinary History. Green describes smart city efforts gone wrong but also smart enough alternatives, attainable with the help of technology but not reducible to technology: a livable city, a democratic city, a just city, a responsible city, and an innovative city. His thesis that smart cities are really all about smart citizens is a message for our times. Try again. The Art of Intentional Thinking: Master Your Mindset. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. In a technology-centric smart city, self-driving cars have the run of downtown and force out pedestrians, civic engagement is limited to requesting services through an app, police use algorithms to justify and perpetuate racist practices, and governments and private companies surveil public space to control behavior. Log in or sign up for Eventbrite to save events you're interested in. Something went wrong. Please try again.