Smarts cities: An anthropological challenge

Abstract

The Smart City is a response to the challenges that humanity is facing. In this new urban concept, interrelationships are intensified. These densely populated urban settings approach the security challenge in a very different way than the Roman civitas. While in the Smarts Cities security structures are generated based on video surveillance artefacts and commercialized services, the civitas focuses on the feeling of security that is culturally constructed between the person and their community.In this article we analyse from a holistic perspective the anthropological challenge of living in Smarts Cities, based on the complex chronotope that determines our lives and the universal modules of culture, which facilitate its cultural interpretation, assuming that security is a universal aspiration of humanity. This analysis leads us to conclude that security in the Smart City is based on the use of data managed in Data Centres and the Artificial Intelligence algorithms that classify and apply them. The inhabitants of these technological cities will base their security on the data reported by the digital devices that surround them and they will confuse, regarding security, the structure with the feeling of it.