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Urban OS: "Smart cities get their own operating system" - September 30th 2011, 08:23 PM

I stumbled across an article on the BBC News website which I thought may be of interest to fellow TeenHelpers:

BBC News - Smart cities get their own operating system

There's more on the company behind it, Living PlanIT, here.

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Re: Urban OS: "Smart cities get their own operating system" - October 1st 2011, 11:09 AM

Looks incredible! Unfortunately I also can't help but see the potential for an Orwellian state with this.


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Re: Urban OS: "Smart cities get their own operating system" - October 1st 2011, 06:41 PM

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Looks incredible! Unfortunately I also can't help but see the potential for an Orwellian state with this.
I do see what you mean - the potential for exploitation is immense. I suppose the best way to prevent that is to limit the functionality of the devices linking into the OS, but then that needs some kind of supervisory body as well and you're getting into the whole "who watches the watchmen" problem. Alternatively, just make sure no political entity gets their mits anywhere near it...


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Re: Urban OS: "Smart cities get their own operating system" - October 2nd 2011, 04:22 PM

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I do see what you mean - the potential for exploitation is immense. I suppose the best way to prevent that is to limit the functionality of the devices linking into the OS, but then that needs some kind of supervisory body as well and you're getting into the whole "who watches the watchmen" problem. Alternatively, just make sure no political entity gets their mits anywhere near it...
Make it public. Community watch dog programs.


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