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What's so Smart about Cities?
1. Igor Schwarzmann
Twitter: @zeigor
eMail: schwarzmann@gmail.com
http://smartcities.posterous.com/
I'm explaining technology
induced social change
at Ketchum Pleon
What's so Smart
about Cities?
2. The 19th century was a century
of empires, the 20th century
was a century of nation states.
The 21st century will be the
century of cities. - Wellington
E. Webb, Former mayor of Denver
3. 2050 according to IBM
(USA): 70 percent of
people will be living
in cities.
Image by strangeharvest.com
5. Chişinău, Nahariya, Tel Aviv,
Darmstadt, Frankfurt am Main,
Cologne, Düsseldorf, Berlin,
New York
6. [...] Next comes ubiquitous
computing, or the age of calm
technology, when technology
recedes into the background of
our lives. - Mark Weiser, Xerox
PARC
12. A City that thinks
like the web.
- Mark Surman,
Mozilla Foundation
13. Internet = City
• Communities • Communities
• API • API
• Programmable • Programmable
(digital) (digital)
Properties Properties
• Farmville • Farm
• ... • ...
14. IBM Smart Cities: Enhancing
the cities we live in
Image by IBM
In 5 years: Cities will predict diseases, react
to catastrophes before they are called in,
self-repairing
infrastructure, substantially lowered emissions
15. New Songdo. Let's built a city
from scratch.
Photograph by James Whitlow Delano
Gale International + 35 Billion + Cisco
= New 300.000 large, networked
metropolis
16. Build infrastructure + sell
the citizens of the city the
right consumer device for
their infrastructure
= 30 Billion Business
17. New Sondgo = Template for 20
cities in China & India
Future: A network
of networked cities?
18. Everything we think of as
organic and emergent in cities
is absent.
- Adam Greenfield, Nokia