Hello my friends,
I vaguely remember that 7 years ago I opened a blog titled global politics now. I posted 2-3 posts. The web keeps everything in an orderly way. I lose files, documents at home, on my computer and on my iPad. Now and then I loose my smart phone.
So now I'm back in my web. My focus changed a bit, not much. I would like to examine the future of smart cities and the extent that smart cities will contribute to enhance liberal democracy worldwide. So instead of focussing on worldwide cooperation and coordination to tackle global problems (including poverty, population explosion, nuclear proliferation, climate change, sustainability, global migration etc), I will focus on smart cities to assist these problems. My perspective, as always, will be the liberal perspective meaning that I will always dwell upon how liberal democracy fares with the policies to create, maintain, navigate smart cities and the end results of the policies.
My methodology is not empirical. It will be critical in the sense of applying critical rationalism that presents different possible policies and critically examines them. Though this methodology is philosophical, the issues will be mainly social and political within the context of the advancement of information and communication technology (ICT)
Dec. 10, 2014. On a train
I vaguely remember that 7 years ago I opened a blog titled global politics now. I posted 2-3 posts. The web keeps everything in an orderly way. I lose files, documents at home, on my computer and on my iPad. Now and then I loose my smart phone.
So now I'm back in my web. My focus changed a bit, not much. I would like to examine the future of smart cities and the extent that smart cities will contribute to enhance liberal democracy worldwide. So instead of focussing on worldwide cooperation and coordination to tackle global problems (including poverty, population explosion, nuclear proliferation, climate change, sustainability, global migration etc), I will focus on smart cities to assist these problems. My perspective, as always, will be the liberal perspective meaning that I will always dwell upon how liberal democracy fares with the policies to create, maintain, navigate smart cities and the end results of the policies.
My methodology is not empirical. It will be critical in the sense of applying critical rationalism that presents different possible policies and critically examines them. Though this methodology is philosophical, the issues will be mainly social and political within the context of the advancement of information and communication technology (ICT)
Dec. 10, 2014. On a train
