"The Unseen"

2019 Campton, Jeremy W. and Kara C. Hoover. “The Unseen.” How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. Ed. Mark Graham, Rob Kitchin, Shannon Mattern, and Joe Shaw (Np: Meatspace Press, 2019), 234-65 [65-71]. 

The story is set in a future that is completely connected and surveilled by a company like Cambridge Analytica told from the point-of-view of a teenager who doesn’t fit the parameters. 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. Female co-author. Crampton, who was born in Ghana, grew up in England, educated there and in the United States, is a Professor of Urban Data Analytics sat Newcastle University. Hoover is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alaska.