We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, understanding them, doesn't seem necessarily to give us power over them. — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchallengeable… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they park. You… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
...people have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and steal… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography. — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for transforming, combining, altering,… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is… — William J. Mitchell Copy Share Image
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