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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Saturday, February 26th, 2011
Just released publicly is a piece I wrote last year for the Institute for the Future’s Health Horizons program. The seed for this forecast perspective was planted the day my daughter Stella was born in February 2008. After the delivery, I put my wife and baby to bed for a much-needed rest and wandered down to [...]
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Friday, January 7th, 2011
I was the lead author on a new forecast looking at the next ten years of developments at the intersection of cities, information and inclusion. This study was funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The full PDF is a free download or you can browse an interactive Prezi version.
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
It went really well. Here’s the 5 minute statement I made: Anthony Townsend Senate Committe Testimony (Part I) from agreatnotion on Vimeo. And here’s my response to one of Senator Pryor’s questions: Anthony Townsend Senate Committe Testimony (Part I) from agreatnotion on Vimeo. Here is a copy of my testimony to the Senate Commerce, Science [...]
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