Privacy vs. potential: The big questions around smart cities
Toronto’s Sidewalk Labs might have started with a splash and ended with a splatter, but “smart tech” to run cities is still part of a future we cannot avoid. On today’s episode John Lorinc, Spacing senior editor and Atkinson Fellow who has been working on a series about smart cities for the Toronto Star, talks about the their potential and how the COVID-19 pandemic might have helped paved the way for a smart city future in Toronto.