“ It’s like asking me to list all the ways electricity informs the life of the city - that’s how protean and pervasive the technologies we’re talking about are and will be. I would go so far as to say that there will be no area or domain of urban activity that is not somehow disassembled and recomposed as a digital, networked, interactive process over the next few years. Objects, buildings and spaces will be reconceived as network resources; cars, subways and bicycles will be reimagined as on-demand mobility services; human communities are already well on the way to becoming self-conscious “social networks.
— Adam Greenfield in response to the question “How do you see the near-future city working with ubiquitous computing”
