Day 9: Technocracy And Smart Cities

The concept of “smart growth” was a brilliant marketing strategy that was introduced in the early 1990s as an alternative phrase for Agenda 21. Americans don’t like to be included into “agendas” they did not create or approve of, but they instantly warmed up to the concept of being “smart”. In any case, who wants to be “dumb”?
The concept of Smart Growth has spawned a plethora of derivatives such as Smart City, smart phone, smart network, sma