American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immense political skill to get anything done at all. — 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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