Digital Heritage From The Smart City And The Internet Of Things: History Or Stasis?

The Smart City and the Internet of Things offer revolutionary benefits from the instrumentation, collection and computation on data from everything everywhere. Yet they offer challenges for records and archives from the technical to the ethical. Within this concerns for security, privacy and history are preeminent. The archivist may become the watcher. We examine some of these concerns for the future and how we might address them as a society.