Abstract
This paper evaluates the status quo of modern society and identifies the neglect of humanism as the root cause of many of today’s global challenges. Note that “smart cities” are not excluded from this indictment. The “Ptolemaic Universe” offers a means to restore our symbiosis with the environment. The ReSeT model is proposed as a tool to analyze the Ptolemaic Universe. Using ReSeT: Homo Sapiens becomes dependent on AI resulting in Homo Digitalis, with further evolution in concert with AI resulting in Homo Digitus. All of these stages are then analyzed in the context of global trusted dependability (GTD). The wellness domain, provides the design specification framework for Homo Digitus’ human-centered and resilient “smart city” ecosystem. This ultimately leads to a better world of increased wellness for Homo Hominus, with better smart cities emphasizing education and science, promoting wisdom and common sense, and rejecting violence. In summary, humanity has generated diverse social structures with erratic outcomes. On the other hand, technology provides a successful foundation for modern society especially in the Pandemic Era. However, technology’s contributions are generally not publicly acknowledged. The paper concludes with several initiatives designed to establish a trusted and resilient society.
Highlights
An explosion of “Smart Cities” around the world provides a repository of examples sufficient for drawing conclusions
Homo Digitalis has been employed as a “term of art” in many sociological and neuropsychologicalbased studies of cell-phone addiction, neuroplasticity effects of social media on the structure of the human brain, and even subjects reporting “phantom vibrations” of their phones
Numerous Nobel Prizes have been awarded for predictions such as in 2013, jointly to François Englert and Peter Higgs, “for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC)” [18]
Summary
An explosion of “Smart Cities” around the world provides a repository of examples sufficient for drawing conclusions. Natural disasters (e.g., floods, earthquakes, wildfires, etc.) which continue to devastate, despite our knowledge of successful mitigation strategies, such as: Trimming trees along high voltage power line right of ways; clearing underbrush in forest areas; Banning rebuilding in vulnerable coastal zones; Enforcing effective building codes in earthquake and hurricane prone regions This failure to accommodate, has continued in the Pandemic Era, despite the fact that technology continues to function well, and is apparently our only surviving tool. Smart Cities must be designed for humans and ought to be both human-centered and environment-sensitive These observations support the model of the Ptolemaic Universe and the Vitruvian society—inhabited by an evolved human subspecies. Improve universal wellness and smartness; Globally expand and extend the discussion of these matters
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