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Carlo Ratti

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[Wikipedia] Carlo Ratti is an Italian architect, engineer, inventor and author. He is a professor of the practice at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab. Ratti is also a founding partner of CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati, an international design and innovation firm w

Quotes by Carlo Ratti

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

Cities

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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves,…

Closing

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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also…

Also

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

Browse

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

Campaign

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

Around

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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Googles traffic congestion…

Congestion

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Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an…

Air

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

Becoming

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

20th century

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

Away

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

Cities

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The deployment of geolocating tags attached to ordinary garbage could paint a surprising picture of the waste management system, as trash is…

Attached

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Phone networks can capture life on our planet.

Capture

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Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to…

Aims

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