South Korea's Brave New City
New Songdo City, a "ubiquitous city is where all major information systems (residential, medical, business, governmental and the like) share data, and computers are built into the houses, streets and office buildings," will be ready in 2014: Korea's High-Tech Utopia, Where Everything Is Observed*.

"What about privacy?" you might ask:

In the West, ubiquitous computing is a controversial idea that raises privacy concerns and the specter of a surveillance society... But in Asia the concept is viewed as an opportunity to show off technological prowess and attract foreign investment....

"Much of this technology was developed in U.S. research labs, but there are fewer social and regulatory obstacles to implementing them in Korea," said Mr. Townsend, who consulted on Seoul's own U-city plan, known as Digital Media City. "There is an historical expectation of less privacy. Korea is willing to put off the hard questions to take the early lead and set standards."

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