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An IBM executive reacts to Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs game about hacking smart cities

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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IBM is one of the leading proponents of smart cities. Bernie Meyerson, the company’s vice president of innovation, identified “the city that will help you live in it” as one of the top five technology trends that will happen in the next five years.

Predictions show that by 2030, towns and cities of the developing world will make up 80 percent of urban humanity. By 2050, seven out of every 10 people will live in cities. Smarter cities take feedback from the smartphones of citizens, gather data from sensors spread throughout the city, and analyze them with “big data” analytics in web-connected data centers. Then the cities can autonomously adjust and deliver better services in real time.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.