What happens in a high-tech smart city when the lights go out?

Wouldn’t you say that is worth thinking about while you are figuring out how to spend the taxpayers money for safe streets?

Learning from the Barcelona Smart Cities Expo

The Barcelona Smart City Expo and World Congress was a great learning experience for me. I spent the full week in Barcelona, most of which at the conference and expo, observing, listening, talking and trying to get a feel for the overall state of thinking and attitudes toward the future on the part of all the many and diverse players. It was a highly informative and in many ways challenging week. And a bit puzzling