Le fiasco de la smart city de Google à Toronto
Between utopia and dystopia, the concept of Smart city is in question. The smart city is a dream, but the concrete achievements of capturing behaviors were quickly contested by citizens. The well-documented story of the Google fiasco in 2020 in Toronto illustrates this technological solutionism whic...
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| Language: | English |
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Netcom Association
2024-01-01
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| Series: | Netcom |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/netcom/8248 |
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| Summary: | Between utopia and dystopia, the concept of Smart city is in question. The smart city is a dream, but the concrete achievements of capturing behaviors were quickly contested by citizens. The well-documented story of the Google fiasco in 2020 in Toronto illustrates this technological solutionism which envisaged building a platform city, a calculated city. Hyper-connection and algorithmic optimization can then be analyzed at the level of ethics. We can argue that none of the three major ethical principles – that of person, that of duty or that of utility – will be able to found an ethics for digital technology. The inevitable conflicts will not be to be resolved but to be lived, in an ethics based on complex thought. |
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| ISSN: | 0987-6014 2431-210X |