The Cost of Things: The quality of what is fixed and what is marginal

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	Internet of Things  (IoT) The Zero Marginal Cost Society
IoT is not just an incredible prospect it is an incredible happening. Let us not forget however the Fixed Costs of Social Care

Should some of the costs that assure High Quality be fixed, or remain intangible?

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ERCIM News No. 98 Special theme: "Smart Cities"

ERCIM NEWS #98

Dear ERCIM News Reader,

ERCIM News No. 98 has just been published at:
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en98

Special Theme: "Smart Cities"
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en98/special/

featuring a keynote by Eberhard van der Laan, Mayor of Amsterdam
http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en98/keynote-smart-cities

Guest editors:
- Ioannis Askoxylakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece
- Theo Tryfonas, Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, UK

This issue is also available for download as:
pdf:  http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/images/stories/EN98/EN98-web.pdf
epub: http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/images/stories/EN98/EN98.epub

Next issue: No. 99, October 2014 - Special Theme: "Quality Software"
(see Call at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/call)

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Peter Kunz
ERCIM News central editor

Includes:
Urban Civics - Democratizing Urban Data for Healthy Smart Cities
CityLab@Inria - A Lab on Smart Cities fostering Environmental and Social Sustainability
‘U-Sense’, A Cooperative Sensing System for Monitoring Air Quality in Urban Areas 
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