I predict the return of the New, New Communism aka smart cities:
“We all know the symptoms of a bad day. You’re stuck in traffic, stranded with a dead phone, or slammed with a busy schedule; nothing is going according to plan. Unfortunately, the cause of our most stressful days is often the same: people aren’t good at predicting the future.”
Their conclusion is sound, so far, but read on.
“For everyone’s daily schedule to go according to plan, we need to balance our behavior on a large scale. When your activity is in harmony with the people in your community, problems dissolve, sustainability becomes natural, and life is more comfortable. That’s what living in a smart city is all about.”
People aren’t good about predicting the future. If only we had an elite group of central planners who could run things for us. We could call them Planners or Futurists or something and they could tell us what was going to happen over the next 5 years...
http://qz.com/312865#1/smart-cities-are-coming-heres-what-they-will-know-about-us/
It’s sponsored content by Hitachi. Maybe they can do for us what they’ve done to Japan?
[shudder]
That’s whack! Kind of scary that there are people that think like that and they are so close to the levers of power.