"Digital cities will collect and organize the digital information of the corresponding cities, and provide a public information space for people living in and visiting them"..
Ετσι συνοψίζουν οι T. Ishida και K. Isbister Eds.,στο έργο τους "Digital Cities: Experiences, Technologies and Future Perspectives" τη σχέση μεταξύκυβερνοπόλεων και πραγματικότητας.
"As a platform for community networks, public information spaces
that mirror the city metaphor are being developed around the world. The aim of
digital cities is to pursue a future information space for everyday urban life,
unlike the creation of new businesses which is the current obsession of the
Internet. We started the basic research project called “Universal Design of
Digital City,” a five year project established in 2000, a part of the Core
Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST) run by the Japan
Science and Technology Corporation (JST). The objective of this project is to
construct digital cities as the infrastructure that encourages the participation of
all people, including the disabled and the aged. We will develop basic
technologies for the universal design, focusing on ‘sending information,’
‘receiving information,’ and ‘participation.’ This paper introduces some of
various experiments such as crisis management, environmental learning, and
shopping street navigation. Digital cities are not imaginary since they
correspond to the physical urban spaces in which we live. Basic technologies
including perceptual information infrastructure and social agents are being
developed for connecting digital and physical cities."
