The City

My problem with the concept of Smart City is to speculate that cities could be "digital" or "intelligent". This allows you to think about hyperconnectivity and data driven efficiency. But the city is more than that. The city is the center of people, supported by infrastructure. Cities are places where people gather and experience the benefits of being at hand - access to services and culture is actually a benefit of urbanization. There is no doubt that the application of "smart" to urban infrastructure is beneficial. But the conversation needs to be bigger than that

More than 20 years ago, Stockholm decided to consider high-speed Internet access as infrastructure. But the city does not want to offer services competitively with private suppliers and does not want streets to be cut off by companies that sell competitive services freely. As a result, we formed a holding company, bought an existing pipeline network, and started introducing dark fiber using the city-supported loan. The holding company Stokab started the lease of the dark fiber connection, immediately repayed the loan and the cash flow became positive

When Lafayette, Louisiana, finally won the inter-family battle with the family of $ 3.5 million in three years, it raised the standard for all other cities in the United States. Now, as Google runs optical fiber to all the houses in Kansas City, I feel that a lot of people are left behind. In terms of super high speed internet, Korea is one year ahead of the US. Las Vegas is now becoming a test track for the unmanned automobile era. As Nevada and Google's law changed in the context of promoting the challenges of unmanned driving vehicles, we immediately see special pickup station for unattended taxis, special applications signaling these vehicles, and bypass I guess. New communication structure of traffic, report problems, improve ride comfort