Tag: smart cities

NEXT24: energising the future with AI as… plumbing?

By Adam Tinworth

We’re thinking too small and too pessimistically about AI. It’s our next level of digital infrastructure and the NEXT24 speakers gave us a glimpse of the creativity that could unleash.
How GenAI can supercharge smart cities

By Adam Tinworth

Generative AI is shaping up to be the technology that finally makes smart cities truly viable.
Systemic changes

By Martin Recke

The changes we face today are systemic, and they are tearing apart the fabric of our late-modernity lives. Time to shift our perception.
VR has made us blind to the true potential of spatial computing

By Adam Tinworth

We’ve been brainwashed by the movies of the 80s and 90s to think that spatial computing will be delivered via glasses. It’s time to open our eyes to this technology’s true potential.
Time to get moving on mobility — for the planet’s sake

By Adam Tinworth

We need to solve our mobility problems, both for our quality of life, and to combat the climate crisis. But achieving frugal mobility involves some serious complexity…
Quantum Realms: why predicting the next major innovation is so hard

By Adam Tinworth

Quantum computing is potentially the next great wave of innovation - but it's in the pre-product, pre-consumer stage, so it's hard to understand. But what other science could end up upending how we live?
NEXT18 Themes #2: Preparing our societies for transformational technology

By Adam Tinworth

The speakers on day two of NEXT18 dove deeper into the things about humanity that technology can't change - and thus challenged us to address the factors we can.
Audi cars to start talking to traffic lights

By Adam Tinworth

While you driving, your Audi might be chatting away to the traffic management system of your city…
Making cities better with drones

By Adam Tinworth

New York is using drones to make some pretty tedious maintenance work cooler, safer - and better…
Manchester wins £10m to build a smart city

By Adam Tinworth

The city of Manchester in the UK now has £10m to pilot smart city living via the Internet of Things - but will it spend it wisely?
How We Will Drive: reshaping cities – and terrorism – with autonomous vehicles

By Adam Tinworth

Self-driving cars have the potential of reshaping our urban landscapes - but only if we can manage the associated risks.
A city to test drive the future

By Adam Tinworth

How do you test huge changes to our urban infrastructure without putting lives at risk? Build a test city…
Google targets Smart Cities infrastructure

By Adam Tinworth

Google has announce the creation of Sidewalk Labs - its first step into the world of seriously smart cities.
Research predicts that self-driving cars could eliminate 90% of vehicles

By Adam Tinworth

Simulations based on efficiency and demand predict that self-driving robocars could massively reduce demand for transport
What happens when digital goes big?

By Adam Tinworth

Much of the digital revolution of the last decade has been small - small devices, personal services. What happens when it goes big - and transforms out businesses and cities?
2015: the year of technology-driven business change

By Adam Tinworth

2015 is here - but what will it bring us? Here's a few guesses at the changes in store this year…
Nokia take a ride in connected cars

By Adam Tinworth

Nokia has set its targets on the car dashboard with Here Auto - is this a side project, or a potential escape route from the mobile phone market?
Can we design the smart cities of the future?

By Adam Tinworth

Traditional views of the smart city are very data-centric. Should we be thinking more about the human touchpoints?
Smart citizens make smart cities

At NEXT13 Dan Hill, CEO of Fabrica, pointed out that smart citizens are necessary to make smart cities: “We have the technology to do anything. To make things happen you need to turn to design and redesign the context, the decision making and the question.”

Tag: smart cities

NEXT24: energising the future with AI as… plumbing?

How GenAI can supercharge smart cities

Systemic changes

VR has made us blind to the true potential of spatial computing

Time to get moving on mobility — for the planet’s sake

Quantum Realms: why predicting the next major innovation is so hard

NEXT18 Themes #2: Preparing our societies for transformational technology

Audi cars to start talking to traffic lights

Making cities better with drones

Manchester wins £10m to build a smart city

How We Will Drive: reshaping cities – and terrorism – with autonomous vehicles

A city to test drive the future

Google targets Smart Cities infrastructure

Research predicts that self-driving cars could eliminate 90% of vehicles

What happens when digital goes big?

2015: the year of technology-driven business change

Nokia take a ride in connected cars

Can we design the smart cities of the future?

Smart citizens make smart cities