I first encountered Shannon's prescient work when I was looking at Google's Sidewalk Labs and connecting the dots between machine learning and surveillance in 2017! placesjournal.org/article/a-ci...
This seems an obvious truth, but we need to say it loud and clear. Urban intelligence is more than information processing.
I think often about how the presentist AI discourse ignores the nearly identical arguments made about “big data” + “smart cities” a decade+ ago. As folks were celebrating the Knicks broadcast on Links, it struck me how their Google
surveillance guts have been normalized 🤷♀️
The kiosks rolling out this month will let Google and others do unprecedented snooping on New Yorkers, says The Village Voice.
