Is Luddism the Answer to ‘Keeping Humans at the Heart’?

This article draws on Neil Brown’s contribution to the SCL’s Technology Law Futures Conference, in which he mused on the parallel between today’s concerns about the impact of technologies and those of the Luddites in the 19th century, and floated the idea of a ‘human impact assessment’….

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Smart City, Surveillance City

Too often a technology’s capacity and curiosity about its limits leads to an unremitting focus on achieving a goal without considering the desirability of the goal. Smart Cities may be no different. David Murakami Wood offers a refreshing focus on the links between smart cities and surveillance….

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