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How Big Data Is Entering Every Corner of Our Lives
[...]in Songdo, a new city in Korea, built on reclaimed land outside Incheon airport, and designed by Gale International of Manhattan, powered by u.Life Solutions software, cameras will report the flow of pedestrians, and pavement lights will lighten or dim accordingly; congestion on the road will be monitored by registration plate software; there will be real-time meteorological forecasts so that the power grid can be prepared in advance of surges; water, waste, and energy use will be measured and efficiencies found at all stages. [...]implementing such schemes is harder than many expect; smart and big data are not the elixirs often promised and are hard to implement.\\n The same technology that is used to monitor our shopping habits can also be used to track our every move. Since the age of Frederick Taylor's theories of scientific management, it has been clear that to be monitored was to be managed.
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Comment is free In brief: The Tories' failure to understand cities will cost them votes
The Tories' dilemma is that they risk offending their rural heartlands whenever they try too hard to look metropolitan: as a result, high-speed rail is needed to connect our urban centres, but seemingly not through Tory constituencies. Immigration policy too only illustrates incomprehension: cities need more immigrants, not less. In the next 20 years, 750,000 new jobs at graduate level will be created in London. Our education system is not prepared for this, and so we must look elsewhere for the workers or we lose the work.
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Why London is good for you
According to the report, the city will hold its position because it is the place where high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) like to work and play. [...]every measure -- from wages, income, domestic product, bank deposits, as well as rates of invention, measured by new patents and employment in creative sectors -- all scale superlinearly.
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METROPOLIS
[...] through the examples of places such as SiliconValley or Bangalore, he shows that moving to the city can make you smarter and more creative.
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