Mindful Smart Cities

€22.00

Inaugural address at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University:

My talk, titled "Generative Technologies and Smart Cities," explores everything from the technical aspects, such as ICT and artificial intelligence, to the metaphysical, philosophical, and spiritual dimensions that underpin these evolving urban landscapes.As generative technologies are applied to smart cities, the boundaries of what actually can be offered as a service move into human-preserved realms, such as our sense of self. When massive data are migrated to the cloud, smartness becomes tangent to vulnerability. We should not forget that.