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Sensing and the future of cities

Adam Greenfield analyses the impact of services like Citysense, a location-based service with a twist. I’m not entirely sure I agree with the thrust of his argument, though; the future of urbanism is surely about meaningful technology more than information.
“For example, one of the first things that drops out of the Citysense data is a [...]

Posted 17 June 2008 § mobile ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Ethical guidelines for ubiquitous computing

His rather ponderous writing style aside, Adam Greenfield has some interesting thoughts about the ethical dimension of designing for ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous computing applications are much more integrated with social activity, so need to be much more sensitive to the “soft” human needs.
“Ubiquitous systems must contain provisions for immediate and transparent querying of their ownership, [...]

Posted 08 May 2005 § uncategorized ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , ,