The Term ‘Smart Cities’ is Stupid

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The shift from the industrial city of today to an information society encounters one of the greatest challenges we face as a civilization. If we understand the city to be one of its major inventions, the way we understand and build cities stands at a crossroads that exceeds the magnitude of the challenges posed by technological change. Welcome to the emerging field of Urbanetics where advanced aspirations will confront major challenges or radical change in the operating system of society. This new mindset will subversively introduce more efficient, more profitable, more environmentally-friendly and more sustainable management models, based on precisely the opposite of the previous post-industrial model, introducing real-time data as the scientific basis of the city model.