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Good Code is a weekly podcast about ethics in our digital world. We look at ways in which our increasingly digital societies could go terribly wrong, and speak with those trying to prevent that. Each week, host Chine Labbé engages with a different expert on the ethical dilemmas raised by our ever-more pervasive digital technologies. Good Code is a dynamic collaboration between the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech and journalist Chine Labbé.

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From small projects within existing cities, to entire neighborhoods built from the Internet up, our urban lives are getting smarter. Smart cities are attractive: to us, but also to global capital. Should we be skeptical, and resist the smart city movement?

We ask Ellen Goodman about the texture of life in the smart city of the future, and whether or not serendipity will be a thing of the past.
She tells us why she fears smart cities could lead to a loss of democratic accountability, and a concentration of power. And she warns that we should be vigilant about the theory of the “good” that is driving our urban innovations.

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