High-Speed Internets and so many other ways to enjoy Internets pr0n has changed life in Kansas City for both better and worse.
However, as we look toward the future we need to be realistic about the technological challenges that confront Kansas City amid the digital age. There's always a tendency for irrational exuberance to win over any discussion of how machines will shape local life in the coming years.
Here's one example of Kansas City local government looking at the rise of local tech with clueless optimism.
Fortune: Cities dream of a 'smart' sci-fi future
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"Kansas City wants to turn itself into a smart city, the new buzzword used by urban planners and municipal visionaries. The idea is to use more technology to track what’s happening in the city to help improve the quality of life."
It's a nice thought that ignores the pitfalls of technology and just about every brilliant insight of author Philip K. Dick who imagined iconic instances of tech FAIL.
To wit . . .
CHECK THIS KICK-ASS KANSAS CITY TOP 5 TECHNOLOGY FUTURE CHALLENGES!!!
Thinking critically about the Internets and the future is essential for those of us who don't want to believe the election hype from one of many broads who earned their City Hall gig by way of a political favor to their husband . . . And so . . .
Fear this future list:
More Killing In Future Kansas City
Sure, med tech has saved the lives of a great many local shooting victims but killing machines are growing more sophisticated and in the era of 3d printed guns the ways in which Kansas City denizens kill each other will soon grow more advanced.
Real Estate Speculation And Hype Dominates Kansas City's Future
Politicos will always want to play developer and it doesn't look like anybody has learned from a $15 Million a year+ mistake in the P&L District. Expect more condos, hotels and other pet projects that are promised to bring untold riches but mostly leave KCMO picking up the tab time after time.
Aliens Stay Winning In Kansas City
They're called the undocumented, dreamers or illegal aliens but they've already landed and Kansas City has long served as SANCTUARY for one wave after another of immigrants who have mostly provided a greater cultural vibrancy and (variety of hot chix) to the urban core.
Spy Tech Will Fight For The Future
Red Light Cameras have been targeted for elimination in Missouri but surveillance tech and toys continue to be a favorite of authorities and politicos throughout the nation despite public outrage. Powered by sweet consulting contracts and the fight over information . . . In more advanced countries the public has lost this battle for privacy.
Kansas City Computer Love Endures
Look around and it's clear to see that people in Kansas City are already controlled by their devices. It's not just lonely fat broads who spend far too much time pleasuring themselves to an obscene degree with a piece of highly specialize machinery. Submission to this trend has been welcomed by most and two year mobile phone contracts are now the only kind of commitment that people really seem to enjoy.
And so . . .
They say that no man can fight the future and "retro" is just a corporate recording-industry marketing scheme to get out of paying new artists any more cash . . . But here at TKC we confront the days ahead with a renewed optimism, realization that the "good old days" were actually horrible and cryptic acknowledgement that things can always get worse.
I like the link to the article but YOU, Sir have a wild imagination.
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ReplyDeleteRE: "Kansas City wants to turn itself into a smart city"
ReplyDeleteFirst, let's get all our "stakeholders" together for a "charrette" to discuss our common goals.
Sure hope taxpayers aren't on the hook for the massive overbuilding of apartments downtown.
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ReplyDeleteDo you believe that computers and robot factories will define the years to come? Maybe you have failed to notice that the US electric grid is decrepit and in need of at least a $1 trillion upgrade-and-rebuild, which, by the way, is not going to happen. What is all that crap going to run on? America’s disappointment with the broken promises of technology will be so epic that we’ll be lucky not to slide back into a world ruled by superstition and ghosts.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with most of what you've said, except that we already live in a world ruled by superstition and ghosts.
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