Anybody can use it to visualize and explore the data and learn more about their city. Carlo Ratti More Quotes by Carlo Ratti More Quotes From Carlo Ratti As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion maps. Carlo Ratti google real people Phone networks can capture life on our planet. Carlo Ratti planets capture phones Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population. Carlo Ratti population cities world We can analyze the pulse of the city, moment to moment, over the past decade, digital technologies have begun to blanket our cities, forming the backbone of a large, intelligent infrastructure. Carlo Ratti technology The way it will change people's lives is through different types of apps, lIVE Singapore! can start ideas for combining data, which can become apps. Carlo Ratti technology It becomes an ideal lab to study the link between technology and city planning. Carlo Ratti technology The power increases exponentially. Carlo Ratti technology It's something that people have been using for centuries, it's called evaporative cooling, people in this part of the world have been using water to freshen the air for a long time. Carlo Ratti world It can cope with as many people as you want -- whether it's a crowd of people or whether there's just one, there will be a misting spray, it's also highly efficient because you're not misting a whole space -- you are just cooling a small volume around the person. Carlo Ratti world We think we'll have some ready for commercial sale in the near future, hot and arid climates are perfect for evaporative cooling. Carlo Ratti world Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up. Carlo Ratti away end some trash The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own Trash Track project. Carlo Ratti picture garbage management country The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market. Carlo Ratti street late eye way Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian. Carlo Ratti city new pollution quality The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change. Carlo Ratti every-day day change people One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text. Carlo Ratti you water ideas fall Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one. Carlo Ratti power time today world Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail. Carlo Ratti cocktail everyone new time When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump. Carlo Ratti yourself better day you We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time. Carlo Ratti city digital technology time
