Smartphones and wearables collect real-time data—like traffic flow, air quality, and crowd density—that fuel smart-city services. But when too many devices offload data at once, networks slow down and ...

Barry Lynn, Seda Gürses, and Seeta Peña Gangadharan debate what choices people and institutions have—and should have to make—in the design, diffusion, and disruption of automated technologies. Since ...