Melani Veveçka Society, Culture, and Security

Built to Watch: The Smart City and the Reinvention of the Surveillance State in Daily Life

In the opening credits of The Jetsons, George Jetson glides through Orbit City, where technology has freed humanity from the drudgery of everyday life. The show offered a comforting fantasy in 1962; a city built on technological infrastructure that could dissolve urban problems altogether.  Six decades later, as real cities rush to install sensors in Read More…