An Open World: In a Digital Age
- urbanNext, November 21, 2019.
- 1320 words.
Essay, expanding design practices, No Density, Politics and economics, Rufus Pollock
Advanced Urbanism, Artificial intelligence, Cultural agitator, Digital era, Digital technologies, Digitalization, Essay, Inclusivity, Inequality, Information, Information Technologies, Innovation, Knowledge, Network, New paradigms, Open data, Open systems, Politics, Sharing knowledge, User’s experience
Excerpt from The Open Revolution.
Today, in a digital age, who owns information owns the future. In this digital world, we face a fundamental choice between Open and Closed. In an Open world information is shared by all – freely available to everyone. In a Closed world information is exclusively “owned” and controlled.