The Smart Cities War

We are all aware that wars have always existed around the world, ever since men have considered themselves individuals. In many cases, fratricidal wars genetically linked to Cain, the Biblical preface to the eternal unhappiness of “no peace among men”.

And behold, despite everything, we continue to evolve. To grow, to innovate, to create art and innovation, in spite of wars, conflicts and increasing dehumanization, cruelty and totalitarianism that grows even in the western and supposedly democratic world, as the management of the pandemic has shown in some places.

We know that the stages of the battles were not always the same. In the open field, in the mountains, or in the forest, there have been several wars won and lost with the use of orography interpretation and strategic anticipation or obvious inevitability. I recall one of the places I had the urge to visit when I lived in Greece: the Thermopylae, which was the alleged stage of the spectacular metaphorical (and now romanticized by cinema) resistance of the 300 Spartans led by Leonidas who held out for as long as it took to reorganize forces against the Persian invasion, becoming martyrs and symbols of a resistance to the shadows of totalitarianism.

In more recent wars, the city has become the most common venue. The use of civilians as human shields and the shock of media coverage by the image and…