A Penny for Your Thoughts?
SMART CITIES: A SUSTAINABLE URBAN FUTURE OR A PRIVACY CONCERN? You know the idea of flying cars, right? It’s amazing and honestly so amusing just to know that there are cars literally flying past over your head or when you don’t even need to use planes anymore because you already own a flying car. Now think about Smart Cities, what do you think that would look like? I’m currently considering my opinion regarding this topic but I never really thought hard about it, but our professor decided to include this topic to create a blog post. To give a brief overview of what smart cities are, they use data and technology to create efficiencies, improve sustainability, create economic development, and enhance quality of life factors for people living and working in the city. Now here is the question, is it worth it? Or will it cause a privacy concern? My answer would be that it would make a sustainable urban future because digital technology is advancing faster and it's being used mo...
