Building A Digital City
from the sounds-like-fun dept
News.com is running a very interesting interview with the guy who's designing an entire Korean city to take advantage of new technologies. He talks a lot about various technologies and how they impact social and cultural behavior. He also points out similarities between earlier technologies such as the telegraph and the railroad in determing how cities are built. One interesting point he makes at the end is that providing wireless hotspots is cheaper than supplying many services that are considered "required" in cities, such as garbage collection. It also increases the value of property noticeably. With that in mind, he's started a company to provide free wireless hotspots around the US (which is an interesting contrast to Nokia telling us that free WiFi is theft).
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