Authors:
Elizabeth Goodman
In 2003, I was working at a research lab on what then seemed like a new and unmapped field: urban computing. We envisioned a network of devices that would playfully engage urban dwellers with the strangers around them. In an initial vision, sensors at points of interest, such as bus stops or coffee shops, would track nearby devices. That information could then drive place-based recommendations along the lines of Amazon's product recommendations. A visitor to our lab immediately pointed out that the system would harvest easily identifiable location data—data that corporations and governments could use to assemble individual profiles.…
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