Kansas City 'Smart City' Hype Cycle Broken!!!



Here's an import cowtown fact check on tech promotion that is now growing tiresome after Amazon HQ2 FAIL.

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KC Biz Journal: Black & Veatch report: Skepticism grows around smart cities

Money line:

"Black & Veatch surveyed utility, municipal, commercial and community stakeholders. About 15 percent of survey participants believe that smart cities are a passing fad without long-term substance. Last year, only 6.3 percent held that belief.

"It could be due to the "hype cycle," Fred Ellermeier, a vice president and managing director of Black & Veatch's Connected Communities business, told the Kansas City Business Journal. When a new technology is introduced, there's typically inflated expectations and overconfidence in what the technology can achieve. Eventually, however, expectations level out. Part of the issue, too, is that the rollout of smart city initiatives are taking longer than what some expected."

You decide . . .

Comments

  1. Well, the killa city web site sucks and sLIE seyz we be a smart city!

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  2. technology cannot stop the muders and the rest of the out of control crime in kc.

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  3. Burned and McDouble starting to say bad things because sLIE effed them over with the airport deal? Stay tuned to this bat channel!

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  4. Have you seen the smart app that detects when a pants-shitting geezer has a full diaper?

    It's called Poop Tracker!!! It can detect a bursting Depends at 300 yards and uses the Bristol Stool Scale!!!

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  6. The seven types of stool are:

    Type 1: Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass); also known as goat faeces
    Type 2: Sausage-shaped, but lumpy
    Type 3: Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface
    Type 4: Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
    Type 5: Soft blobs with clear cut edges (passed easily)
    Type 6: Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
    Type 7: Watery, no solid pieces, entirely liquid
    Types 1 and 2 indicate constipation, with 3 and 4 being the ideal stools (especially the latter), as they are easy to defecate while not containing excess liquid, and 5, 6 and 7 tending towards diarrhoea.

    In the initial study, in the population examined in this scale, the type 1 and 2 stools were more prevalent in females, while the type 5 and 6 stools were more prevalent in males; furthermore, 80% of subjects who reported rectal tenesmus (urgency to defecate) had type 7. These and other data have allowed the scale to be validated.[9]

    The Bristol stool scale is also very sensitive to changes in intestinal transit time caused by medications, such as antidiarrhoeal loperamide or senna, anthraquinone substance with laxative effect.[10]

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  7. Unfortunately, the "smart city" nonsense is just one of the too many fads that KCMO government wet its pants and fell head over heels about.
    And all these fads, the streetcar comes immediately to mind, have very long-term financial obligations, much of it decades of debt, that currently limit and will decrease in the future, KCMO to have the resources necessary to provide the services that residents, businesses, and visitors, all three, actually depend on.
    Safe neighborhoods and well-maintained streets come to mind.
    Decades of upside-down priorities will finally catch up with KC, which has already happened with neglected and poorly-maintained the water and sewer systems.
    But there's a never-ending line of salesmen with just smiles and a shoeshine ready to reel in another group of suckers at 12th and Oak.
    What are you going to run for next?

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  8. Part of the fake it until you make it narrative

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  9. So while we lose out with real tech companies the project engineering firms make a political joke out of local government

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  10. You mean Sly and Troy and Bob couldn't out innovate tesla, nvidia, SoftBank, Google by yelling Google from the choo choo.

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  11. Note the recent Burn em Mac coup taking over transit without any competitive review. Chamber setting fix since Sly couldn't deliver like the old days. The hogs are at the trough, local pork in the raw.

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