When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go… — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is shipped throughout the country in a maze-like disposal process - as we saw in Seattle with our own… — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
Cities are 2% of the earths crust, but they are 50% of the worlds population. — Carlo Ratti Copy Share Image
