Friday, December 2nd, 2011
“”Urbanization of the planet will have finished by the end our children’s’ lifetime and will last forever. We only have one opportunity to do urban development properly. We can not afford to repeat the mistakes of the 20th century,” warned Anthony Townsend… full - Experts exchange views on planning the futureof cities
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
A short video interview where I explain smart cities to a professor from the IESE, a business school based in Barcelona.
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Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
It was a day of talking about transit data, but I ended it by making some historical connections and then shifting the conversation to talk about wireless capacity as a limiting factor on the use of big data. The session starts at 1:32:00 with intros and such, my talk starts at around 1:32:00 Video
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Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
Carlo Ratti, Director of the MIT SenseABLE City Lab and I wrote this piece earlier this summer collaborating via Skype between New York, Boston, Milan, London, and Singapore. September 1, 2011 Scientific American Social Nexus: Harnessing Residents’ Electronic Devices Will Yield Truly Smart Cities
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Sunday, July 31st, 2011
I was inspired to chime in on Bloomberg’s ambitious effort to lure a new science campus to New York, in light of all the work I’ve done over the last few years looking at the future of science and technology parks. link: “How New York can become a genius magnet: The art of engineering a [...]
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
I want to start by reminding us how much hope there was in the 1990s for cities around broadband. The economic potential of “information superhighway” was just being realized. Even Homer Simpson had an Internet startup called “CompuGlobalHyperMegaNet”. Back then, cities thought they would play a dominant role in creating an affordable digital broadband infrastructure [...]
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Let me begin by thanking BNDES for inviting me to speak at this conference on behalf of the Institute for the Future, and for the many leaders of your country’s government and industry for being in attendance – [Listing of names] It’s an honor to be here in Brazil at this exciting point in your [...]
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Monday, July 18th, 2011
Korea’s largest daily ran this interview with me. Sad to say I haven’t a clue what it says, but here’s the Google translation which is beyond hilarious. My personal favorite: After 10 years, what is the buzzword of the city? ”Mobile and transport, the carbon problem seems to be a major buzzword. Smartphones modern communications and [...]
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Probably one of the most interesting urbanism conferences I’ve ever attended, the Forum on Future Cities was part of MIT’s 150th Anniversary celebration and was hosted by the pioneering SENSEable City Lab. I spoke about the forecast map on cities, information and inclusion I produced last fall, as well as some ideas that I’m developing [...]
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
This essay originally appeared on Urban Omnibus… here’s an excerpt: I feel compelled to respond to a recent article and photo essay (PDF) published by a group of communications scholars led by Keith Hampton. Hampton is best known for his doctoral research under Barry Wellman, in which he studied the impacts of broadband on a wired suburb of Toronto. [...]
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