
Remove the Smart Screens
The IKE “Smart City” Kiosks were lauded as a win: “technology to improve lives in cities.” They do not improve lives in our city.

The IKE “Smart City” Kiosks were lauded as a win: “technology to improve lives in cities.” They do not improve lives in our city.


GDP concerns itself with only goods and services, having no awareness for wellbeing. And, for that matter, it's a dubious measure of goods and services too… We need a new metric.

There’s a billboard about nine miles North of Cincinnati on I71 that advertises for Dusty’s, a store selling marital (hopefully) aids. It pictures the derriere of a woman sparsely clothed in lacey lingerie. It’s appalling. I for one thought surely we had better public decency laws. But I’m not writing to say we need to take down the asinine Dusty’s billboard specifically. We need to take down all billboards.