将人带回城市:对国外智慧城市“技治主义”的反思与超越

To Bring People Back to the City:Reflections&Transcendence on the"Technocracy"of Foreign Smart Cities

时下,国外的一些全球城市皆将数字化转型视为通向智慧城市的必经之路,并将治理活动委托给了一类公私界限模糊的机构,如“城市大脑”“运行中心”“数字底座”,城市日益“堆栈化”这种“技治主义”迷思极度信任技术,将人类及其活动视为有待数字化的对象、算法机器的原料以及监视和矫正的对象,善治并无保证。此外,治理机器本身异化为满足“用户”需求的“平台供应商”,可能培养出自扫门前雪的“巨婴”当下,我们亟需将“人民共建共治共享”的思想理念真正落到实处。

Nowadays,City authorities all over would regard digital transformation as the only way to build a smart city,and entrust governance activities to a kind of institutions with blurred boundaries between public and private,such as "Urban Brain","Operation Center" and "Digital Base".Cities are increasingly "stacked".This "technocratic" myth has an extreme trust in technology,treating people and their activities as objects to be digitized,raw materials of algorithmic machines,objects to be monitored and corrected,with no guarantee of "good governance".In addition,the governance machine itself,being alienated and becoming a "platform suppliers" to meet the needs of "users",may create "giant babies" who only care about themselves.Therefore,we urgently need to truly implement the idea of "joint contribution,joint governance and shared benefits" in city construction.