And just as ordinary people have hacked software, “citizen developers” can begin to hack their city. Various crowd-based platforms have proven the strength, ingenuity, bug fixing, and ideation of the world-at-large. A broad mix of experts, amateurs, corporate teams, and wildcard players is remarkably productive in unexpected ways if it can be effectively organized.389 ↱
The City of Tomorrow
Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life
Carlo Ratti, Matthew Claudel