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“Dublin is a ‘smart city’ – high tech, advanced, efficient, connected. Unless, maybe, you live in an apartment building or carved-up Georgian terrace.”
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Dublin is a “smart city” – high tech, advanced, efficient, connected. Unless, maybe, you live in an apartment building or carved-up Georgian terrace, and are waiting for a delivery, or dropping by to try to talk to a neighbour.
Then, it may seem a dumber city. A city of glitchy buzzers and hanging dead-end wires, making you wonder about how we choose when we use not-even modern tech and when we don’t.
You could argue that in the Mobile Phone Era, we don’t need intercom systems. Landlords don’t have to provide them, by law. I’m not convinced.
I am deputy editor and a reporter at Dublin Inquirer. Alex Connolly, who contributed the images for this collage, is a recent graduate with a keen interest in photography. He was formerly photo editor at The University Times, and a regular contributor to its news and culture sections.
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