The Smart City - What's It All About?

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The smart city isn't just about making urban life a bit more efficient for urban residence, but you actually call it a captured city. A lot of the attention on what smart cities mean has really focused on this n of a smart city can have brought to you by like i bm and sisco. But who's actually delivering on these in a real kind of technical and material way is policing technologies. The police departments and cities have access to wa smarter technology than any one else right in they're deploying it in their everyday operations.

Paris Marx is joined by Jathan Sadowski to discuss the politics of smart technology, how it enables powerful actors to further control the population, and why we should be more comfortable dismantling technologies that don’t serve the public good.

Jathan Sadowski is the author of “Too Smart: How Digital Capitalism is Extracting Data, Controlling Our Lives, and Taking Over the World” and a Research Fellow in the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University. He recently wrote about how smart tech is a means for corporate control and the need to dismantle urban surveillance systems. Follow Jathan on Twitter as @jathansadowski.

Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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