In praise of inefficiencies
I’m reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s Ministry for the Future, which is all about climate change. In it, the author riffs a bit on the role of efficiencies and…
Category: connected world
Global context collapse / The map imports reality
Globalization + Internet = Real Time Context Collapse. The double punch of globalization and ubiquitous internet access have collapsed context. There are no more future places. For example,…
App In, Driver Out: Why Digital Concierge Services aren’t Quite the Future
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:07. Two things, side…
Smart Cities & Human Rights
This article is part of 20in20, a series of 20 blog posts in 20 days to kick off the blogging year 2020. This is 20in20:02. If you’ve followed…
Data about me in my city
This article is a few months old (and in German), but two points of view that I’ll just offer side by side as they pretty much sum up the…
What type of smart city do we want to live in?
Warning: Trick question! The right questions should of course be: What type of city do we want to live in? What parts of our cities do we want…
What happens when one product in a family of connected products fails?
About a year ago, we changed our home audio setup to “smart” speakers: We wanted to be able to stream directly from Spotify, as well we from our…