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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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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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, January 4th, 2011
This is the talk I gave at the Cambridge Phenomenon conference last fall. I highlight the big takeaways from the 20-year forecast on the future of science parks I developed with Alex Pang last year for the Research Triangle Foundation of North Carolina. Anthony Townsend – The Future of Technology-Based Economic Development from Anthony Townsend [...]
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Friday, June 12th, 2009
The Research Triangle Foundation has posted video of my presentation of our forecast on the future of science parks and technology regions. (Report – Prezi overview)
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
I was on this panel in March at the 20th anniversary of Finland’s biggest science museum. I think I said some smart things. Part 1 Part 2
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Friday, July 6th, 2007
Many people have asked for this talk I gave in Barcelona this week. Download townsendiasp_2007_new.pdf
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Here’s a revised version of a paper posted earlier, that I gave at a conference in Newark, New Jersey this past Tuesday. ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the literature on information systems in crisis management by providing an overview of emerging technologies for sensing and recording sociological data about disasters. These technologies are transforming our [...]
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