How Smart is the Smart City? w/ Shannon Mattern
Tech Won't Save Us
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Are Libraries a Good Place to Promote Inclusion?
Am would love to see public technologies and public alternatives coming from libraries. The institution can serve multiple ido cal and kind of functional ends, he says. You can have your kind of text start up incubator in the library or a business library that helps people think about how to start their own businesses. So all these things can coexist with the more critical digital literacy type of programming,. Or maybe even a kind of anarchist, anarchic technologies. Am: "I wish that weren't the case, but economics is usually the motivating factor for so many of our policy decisions"
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