> So, would you propose a dedicated physical wire for every service? That's actually in a twisted sense what the article is advocating. Instead of relying on c

> So, would you propose a dedicated physical wire for every service? That's actually in a twisted sense what the article is advocating. Instead of relying on commodity communications, they advocate the city putting in their own infrastructure so they can do things like this. The article is generally good, but that section is strange. You unequivocally do not need to run high speed internet to homes in order to move towards a "smart city" - wiring up those things they mention is orders of magnitude cheaper than running fiber to every home (funny how surveillance cameras is a suddenly a good thing, by the way).