Cities of the Future
summary
Analysis of 150 million NYC taxi trips yields a shareability network that claims 40% fewer cars by allowing a two minute wait and up to 50 m extra walk, a result already echoed by ride‑pooling startups. A hardware retrofit — a wheel with motor, battery, sensors and an API — amplifies rider power up to 40× and is shipping as Superpedestrian’s product (motor in the rear wheel). Urban tests also deploy robotic sewer samplers plus PCR to map neighborhood microbiomes for public‑health surveillance.
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chapters (27)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:26Digitalisation of cities
- 2:52Sensing
- 3:35Ridesharing
- 8:15Legal Performance Enhancer
- 9:11Microbiome
- 10:17Data Collection
- 11:15Thank You
- 13:41The future of smart cities
- 15:11The biggest infrastructure problem
- 15:42Challenges for cities to become smart
- 17:38Lack of data
- 20:03Ocean of data
- 21:16Business cases
- 22:26Cities are broke
- 23:04Design and ease of use
- 23:30Leap frogging
- 25:17Building for frailty
- 27:11Connectivity
- 28:44Disruption
- 30:02Rapid development
- 31:53Keeping pace with technology
- 33:06Three approaches to the smart city
- 34:02Europe has an advantage
- 36:46The chances of the smart city
- 39:45How will the smart city improve our life
- 41:24Outro
