Assaf Biderman, Future cities

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Future cities - physical and digital environments merge to create new urban opportunities with Assaf Biderman. dcterms:description Small and distributed computers have become an integral part of our lives. With the ubiquity of wireless connectivity they now recombine with our physical environment. Information about urban conditions can be captured in real-time, processed, and fed back into cities, enabling new ways to monitor, understand, and experience them. We can synchronize transportation systems, allocate energy in a smarter way, reuse our waste optimally, or respond more rapidly to emergencies. More importantly, the citizen is in the center of this momentous change. When empowered by real-time information about what's happening around us, our capacity to make smarter decisions and new types of contribution is greatly enhanced. Like the Internet, the networked city invites participation from individuals, organizations, companies, and governments to program and design the digital architectures that will craft our urban future. In this talk, various projects that explore this new condition will be discussed: real-time maps that use the digital exhaust of communication networks to describe urban mobility and environmental conditions, the flows of locatable trash, and mobile applications that automatically track an individual's CO2 output. Assaf Biderman teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is the Associate Director of the SENSEable City Labora

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