Click: How social media is making cities smarter

From: BBC media player

In London 8 million people have access to information about public transportation through the use of social media. There are smart busses, trains, sensors on parking spaces etc. But unfortunately these apps are not connected to work together.

Dublin has volunteered to serve in an experiment to connect their sensors to create a network available to the social network system. Through such a system potential problems can be spotted before they become a real problem. The goal is to use the city's existing infrastructure and improve on it with the idea of creating a "smarter" city, which will lead to a greener city, with a lesser degree of pollution.

By 2050 70% of all people will live in cities. By planning and organizing the infrastructure of the cities better these cities have a better chance of having cleaner air. 

Opinion:

What a great idea to use the social network to organize transportation, traffic and cities more efficiently! This seems like a great use of technology. The only downside that I see to this idea is that the necessity for such a complex organization is the result of an over developed society in which the city has become over full. Organization may bring a certain degree of sanity to these over populated hectic places, but it doesn't take away the fact that the more concentrated cities are the more problems that people will have and the more dependent that they will become on technology and further removed from nature.