Ben Green: The Smart Enough City

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Please join the MIT Press Bookstore in welcoming Ben Green to discuss his upcoming book, The Smart Enough City: Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future.
Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. In The Smart Enough City, Ben Green warns against seeing the city only through the lens of technology.  He proposes instead that cities strive to be “smart enough”: to embrace technology as a powerful tool when used in conjunction with other forms of social change—but not to value technology as an end in itself.
Ben Green is an Affiliate and former Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics at Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. From 2016 to 2017 he was a Data Scientist in the City of Boston's Department of Innovation and Technology.

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