Flying cars are impractical and unnecessary. Here's why
The dream of personal aerial transport appears tantalizingly within reach, as investors from Silicon Valley to Dubai vow to deliver the future of urban mobility. But rather than embracing...
Architect and engineer by training. Teaches at MIT; directs the Senseable City Laboratory. Founding Partner, international design and innovation office Carlo Ratti Associati. Leading voice in the debate on new technologies' impact on urban life. Work exhibited in several venues worldwide, including the Venice Biennale, New York's MoMA, London's Science Museum and Barcelona's Design Museum. Two projects – the Digital Water Pavilion and the Copenhagen Wheel – were hailed by Time Magazine as "Best Inventions of the Year". Included in "Smart List: 50 people who will change the world", Wired Magazine. Currently, Co-Chair, Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization, World Economic Forum; Special Adviser on Urban Innovation to the European Commission.
The dream of personal aerial transport appears tantalizingly within reach, as investors from Silicon Valley to Dubai vow to deliver the future of urban mobility. But rather than embracing...
Pocos equipos modernos han inspirado tanto entusiasmo como el dron. Si bien inicialmente los vehículos aéreos no tripulados para uso no militar (UAV, por sus siglas en inglés) se promovie...
Cities are home to more than half the world's population, and that number continues to grow. How should they adapt to cope with demand? This is a question that will increasingly be answer...
En la teoría del juego, el "precio de la anarquía" describe cómo la conducta egoísta de los individuos dentro de un sistema mayor tiende a reducir la eficiencia de ese sistema. Es un fenó...
In game theory, the “price of anarchy” describes how individuals acting in their own self-interest within a larger system tend to reduce that larger system’s efficiency. It is a ubiquito...
One of the keywords in Africa today is leapfrogging – that phenomenon that allows those who were behind to step ahead of those who were previously at the fore. Mobile phone networks are a...