Could self-aware cities be the first forms of artificial intelligence?
24th August 2010
The cities of the future will be huge and super-dense — but will they also be alive? Could the increasingly complex systems needed to manage the next generation of megacities become our first true artificial intelligence?
Cisco is already building the first of these smart cities: Songdo, a Korean “instant city,” which will be completely controlled by computer networks — including ubiquitious Telepresence applications, video screens which could be used for surveillance.