The ‘smart city’—insofar as the concept has any definitive purchase—is really what I termed in my (2008) a ‘hyperspatial’ city. That is, its social world is not just connected, but hyperconnected. This means that the risks it generates are not just those of an everyday physical space, or even what was once termed a ‘cyberspace’, but perils with multidimensional properties—ones which go far beyond mass data-veillance, or the hacking of a home hub by tech-savvy burglars. For as McLuhan once warned, when citizens are multiply interconnected, the second order nervous system which emerges risks generating debilitation as much as facilitation, deformation rather than information and insecurity rather than security. In this paper I address the nature of this risk from two angles. First the way the advent of the smart city concept has also revealed a striking level of unpreparedness for managing everyday life and security within hyperconnected urban space. Given that cities have always been technologies rather than merely technologized, there are profound questions to be asked about why this latest evolution of our most successful tool for enabling mass proximity social organisation has been perceived to be so different from previous transitions. A second angle focuses more directly upon the metaphysics and ecology of the hyperconnected city. Utilising two key determinants of contemporary urban life, the virtualised economy and automated governance I consider whether life within the smart city may so reorder traditional ideas of security and the citizen that both are rendered obsolete.

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超越平地：当智慧城市造就愚蠢的公民时

“智慧城市”——只要这个概念有任何明确的购买——确实是我在（2008）中所说的“超空间”城市。也就是说，它的社交世界不仅是连接的，而且是超连接的。这意味着它产生的风险不仅仅是日常物理空间的风险，甚至是曾经被称为“网络空间”的风险，而是具有多维属性的风险——远远超出海量数据监视或家庭黑客攻击精通技术的窃贼聚集的中心。正如麦克卢汉曾经警告过的那样，当公民多重相互联系时，出现的二阶神经系统可能会导致衰弱和促进、变形而不是信息和不安全而不是安全。在本文中，我从两个角度阐述了这种风险的性质。首先，智慧城市概念的出现也揭示了在超连接的城市空间中管理日常生活和安全的惊人程度。鉴于城市一直是技术，而不仅仅是技术化，因此有很多深刻的问题要问，为什么我们最成功的工具的最新演变被认为与以前的转变如此不同。第二个角度更直接地关注超连接城市的形而上学和生态。利用当代城市生活的两个关键决定因素，虚拟经济和自动化治理，我考虑智能城市中的生活是否会重新排列传统的安全和公民观念，这两者都已过时。