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Glasgow To Be UK's First 'Smart City'

Posted by timothy on from the but-edinburgh-is-the-athens-of-the-north dept.

CowboyRobot writes "Once the 'Second City' of the British Empire, scrappy Glasgow — whose now-demolished Gorbals was once known for urban grimness on a par with Chicago's South Side or New York's Hell's Kitchen — has the chance for a whole new lease on life as the UK's first 'smart city.' The UK's government has just announced a $38 million (£24 million) grant to fund pilot projects in the city that show how mass deployment of sensors and real-time information can help local government run more efficiently while also boosting the quality of life for its 600,000 citizens. Glasgow won the prize in a competition among 30 British towns and cities for state help in looking at the possible contribution of smart technology."

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  1. This is smart? by __aaltlg1547 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "mass deployment of sensors and real-time information can help local government"

    Sounds as much like Big Brother as Smart City.

    1. Re:This is smart? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Arken's Law. All of three minutes.

    2. Re:This is smart? by TapeCutter · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It has the potential to be either or somewhere in between, people who are certain they have fore-knowledge of the social consequences of this particular experiment are reveling more about themselves than the future.

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  2. Smart is the new Organic by giantgeek · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Smart" is another overloaded buzz word that works well for marketing but is too vague to use to describe a city. Did you really mean to use more descriptive word such as efficient, effective, informative, or economical?

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