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Probably in Japan because the culture is different.
A smart city is not an individualistic society. Japan is such a society, the United States is not.
Well... We had a nice funny thread going here and you have to come on and post a comment that is poignant, to the point, very insightful and makes a lot of sense, cause that's just how you roll, isn't it Tamara?....
Yes, a smart city would likely do better in a homogenized society. No wonder your rep points nearly equal your number of posts and you just received another one.
Under the 50 year strict rule of the recently deceased Lee Kuan Yew, often called a benevolent dictator, Singapore went from being a disease ridden Third World backwater with no natural resources to a gleaming technopolis and the world’s third major financial hub after London and New York.
If you don't like the rules in Singapore you are welcome to leave.
If you don't like the rules in Singapore you are welcome to leave.
Or just don't go there in the first place
I typed "Singapore Signs" into Google image search and below is the link to the page, scroll down and have a look. the shorter list would be what you CAN do! I do not think I could make it out of bed and down my street without racking up a year and a half of jail time and 7,000.00 in fines.
Might make a good "Smart" City due to the level of obedience and discipline but I cannot imagine any free thinking intelligent person living there. Interesting thread here in the polarity that might exist given that technological intelligence could potentially thrive best in a city such as Singapore.
I wouldn't want to live there either, but the United States could still learn some things from them.
Here is Lee Kuan Lew's educational philosophy which has worked extremely well (look at international test scores) : “If I tell Singaporeans – we are all equal regardless of race, language, religion, culture, then they will say, ”Look, I’m doing poorly. You are responsible.” But I can show that from British times, certain groups have always done poorly, in mathematics and in science. But I’m not God, I can’t change you. But I can encourage you, give you extra help to make you do, say maybe, 20% better.”
Of course, if Lee were an American, he would be hounded from office for this philosophy and placed on the Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Watch.
I imagine that the result of living in a "smart city" would be something like a combination of the movies "Equilibrium," and Minority Report, or maybe a society as told by Ally Condie in her book, "Matched."
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