Just a little teaser for a coming in-depth UNETS report on the worldwide panopticon being erected around us. Stay tuned. The trends are leading to Ubiquitous Surveillance in Ubiquitous cities and towns around the world…
From 2005:
“…New Songdo will most likely be a chance to study the large-scale use of RFID, smart cards and sensor-based devices even as Western societies lag in this next wave of computing
“There are really no comparable comprehensive frameworks for ubiquitous computing,” said Anthony Townsend, a research director at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, Calif., and a former Fulbright scholar in Seoul…
…This is a profit-generating model, unlike other U-city projects,” Mr. Kim said. “Songdo U-Life will charge building owners for facilities management and act as a gateway to services. Our partners will test market services that require, say, wireless data access everywhere or a common ID system, without having to build anything themselves.”
More philosophically, “New Songdo sounds like it will be one big Petri dish for understanding how people want to use technology,” said B. J. Fogg, the director of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University.
If so, it is an experiment much easier to do in Asia than in the West.
“Much of this technology was developed in U.S. research labs, but there are fewer social and regulatory obstacles to implementing them in Korea,” said Mr. Townsend, who consulted on Seoul’s own U-city plan, known as Digital Media City. “There is an historical expectation of less privacy. Korea is willing to put off the hard questions to take the early lead and set standards.”
Related:
Official Songdo (a U-City) Website
Built right in: New Songdo City will use the "best" Big Brother Technology from around the world
The world’s first Ubiquitous Surveillance City- London, where Big Brother watches school-kids in the bathroom:
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