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Talking back to your intelligent city

“I have long thought that all the major infrastructures in a city—from sewage to electricity and broadband—should be encased in transparent walls and floors at certain crossroads, such as bus stops or public squares. If you can actually see it all, you can get engaged. Today, when walls are pregnant with software, why not make this visible? All of our computerized systems should become transparent. The city would become literally a publicly shared domain. The challenge for intelligent cities is to urbanize the technologies they deploy, to make them responsive and available to the people whose lives they affect.” - Saskia Sassen

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Source: whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com