Minutes Quotes by Carlo Ratti

Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

— Carlo Ratti

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…

— Carlo Ratti

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…

— Carlo Ratti

As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

— Carlo Ratti

Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing…

— Carlo Ratti

When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we…

— 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

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…

— Carlo Ratti

We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first…

— Carlo Ratti

The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example,…

— Carlo Ratti

Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

— Carlo Ratti

Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population.

— Carlo Ratti