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TED Talks How can we fit more people into cities without overcrowding? Kent Larson shows off folding cars, quick-change apartments and other innovations that could make the city of the future work a lot like a small village of the past.
This talk is relevant not just because it focuses on many urban issues; it also is a fantastic demonstration of how to use spatial thinking to solve problems.
Tags: density, urban, spatial, planning, TED.
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By Jason 7. You Assume Thoughts Create Your Reality The Myth: Thoughts create our reality. All you have to do is think about something, and it will manifest
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"We strive toward knowledge, always more knowledge, but must understand that we are, and will remain, surrounded by mystery."
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The age cohort continues to surprise economists and defy sweeping generalizations, from how many live in poverty to how many drive cars Via billcoffin, Digitives
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How you do anything, is how you do everything! When you begin to apply quality to your everyday life you will start to see a rippling effect that can create heaven on earth for you and your family.
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Multitasking is an essential skill in the era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter. But, argues neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin, it’s actually making us less efficient
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LIKE others, your correspondent is not unduly paranoid about his privacy. He takes cybercrooks seriously, and practices all proper online precautions. But on retail... Via Rob Duke
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Terry Eagleton: Academia has become a servant of the status quo. Its malaise runs so much deeper than tuition fees Via Robert Farrow
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There has been a lot of press the last few days about a paper The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?, published by the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology.
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One of the consistent themes in my Future of Work framework is the polarization of work and value.
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The A.C.L.U., which last week filed a suit against the Obama Administration, has called the N.S.A.’s surveillance program, Prism, a “gross infringement” of the “right to privacy.” The Obama Administration has defended both the program and the fact... |
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These maps are crucial for understanding the region's history, its present, and some of the most important stories there today.
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Researcers have created maps that they say represent the strength of cultural connections between speakers of different languages, writes Larry Hardesty.
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Life is about constantly stepping out of those comfort zones to allow one to be in constant expansion with oneself. Finding out your own personal method of Mindfulness will help you when dealing with the unexpected and in manifesting the life you want.
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There have been and will continue to be multiple big technology revolutions, but the most impactful on human society may be the one that finally builds systems with judgment and decision-making capability more sophisticated and nuanced than trained human judgment. Machine learning, sometimes called big data or artificial intelligence, is [...]
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A Great Transition of necessity involves a breakdown of structure and many, perhaps all of the zones of safety that we have come to rely on. This is necessary because in general those “zones of safety” are obsolete structures that are holding us back. Nonetheless, to the degree that it opens us into the unknown or the untried, that opening leaves us feeling unsafe, unsure and captured by fear. Via Kenneth Mikkelsen 
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A highly recommended blog post by Jordan Greenhall. Jordan writes a great blog on Medium about the need for change in our society. I recommend that you also follow him on Twitter here.
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A SIMPLE idea underpins science: “trust, but verify”. Results should always be subject to challenge from experiment. That simple but powerful idea has generated...
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The community that built the largest encyclopedia in history is shrinking, even as more people and Internet services depend on it than ever. Can it be revived, or is this the end of the Web’s idealistic era?
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There has been a lot of press the last few days about a paper The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?, published by the Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology. |
This TED Talk presents some very forward-thinking ideas on urban planning. With cities becoming more and more packed it is important to rethink the way we live and work in cities. Space saving technologies like the fold-up cars and small, changeable apartments seem futuristic but doable. This video challenges the viewer to think about the form and function of cities in new ways. Moving into the future it is important to adapt to the growing congestion in cities by applying new technologies with flexible designs that make cities more livable. I think that the smart apartments are an innovative solution but unlikely to catch on any time soon. I think that the folding cars are more likely to catch on because so many people already use the tiny smart cars and car-sharing services like zip-car are gaining in popularity.
This video is about how we can design a city that is less crowded. What Kent Larson thinks should happen to a city is basically minimize certain aspects of the city. What that means is adding these new ideas of folding cars,quick-change apartments and other innovations that will lessen the cities population and crowdedness.