Marketing The Smart City Concept

Marketing The Smart City Concept: It doesn’t matter how much positive rhetoric about development and advantages to society is used in the marketing of the idea of [the Smart City], there is always the possibility that it will lead to a dystopian future.

Geofencing, which places restrictions on a person’s movement and or the geographic area in which they can purchase goods and services, and possible loss of bodily autonomy are the defining characteristics of prison cities in which cameras and microphones are used instead of security guards and are connected to artificial intelligence algorithms that calculate social credit scores.