The Smart {Enough} City: A conversation with Ben Green

The author talks policing, shifting the conversation, and lessons learned in The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

Technology can’t save us. Why do we think it can?

This is a pervasive theme throughout Ben Green’s technology-as-cautious-tool diagnostic, The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future. With so many problems to choose from, and so many options to help alleviate them, city officials often look to technology, first, and…