The story is set in a future where Philadelphia has contract with Apple for its citizens, including teenagers, to have a Siri implant that provides them with a constant flow of information, including ads. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
BT - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables C6 -The author teaches in the Department of Media Studies and Production at Temple University.
C7 - 2019 CY - Np DA - 01/2019 LA - eng N2 -The story is set in a future where Philadelphia has contract with Apple for its citizens, including teenagers, to have a Siri implant that provides them with a constant flow of information, including ads. All the stories in the book are responses to a recent book, A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Government (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017), by Stephen Goldsmith and Neil Kleiman, that proposes, in the editors’ interpretation, that cities should act more like Amazon in dealing with their citizens.
PB - Meatspace Press PP - Np PY - 2019 SN - 978-0-9955776-7-1 SP - 787 EP - 30] T2 - How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables TI - “The Semantic City” ER -