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“Something, something big, was happening in multiple places along the axis running from China to the Mediterranean [and beyond] in the first millenium BCE...” That axial age spurred by urbanization and with guidance from axial sages invented modernity (logic and institutions, rationality and strategic interactions and education and participatory civic society.) How should the smart cities of the future reaxialize to withstand deceptive interference, isolation against pandemics, cellularized instituions, etc.?
Supported by and Army Research Office Grant: W911NF-18-1-0427.
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Jointly with Larry Rudolph, VP TwoSigma and MIT.
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Cited from the Buddhist Text Dhammapada [5].
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Mishra, B. (2020). Tech and the City: Axialization, Institutionalization and Disruption. In: Santos, H., Pereira, G., Budde, M., Lopes, S., Nikolic, P. (eds) Science and Technologies for Smart Cities. SmartCity 360 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 323. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51005-3_1
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