Future tech will give you the benefits of city life anywhere | Julio Gil

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🗓️ 27 September 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Don't believe predictions that say the future is trending towards city living. Urbanization is actually reaching the end of its cycle, says logistics expert Julio Gil, and soon more people will be choosing to live (and work) in the countryside, thanks to rapid advances in augmented reality, autonomous delivery, off-the-grid energy and other technologies. Think outside big-city walls and consider the advantages of country living with the forward-thinking talk.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features logistics expert Julio Gill, recorded live at TED at UPS 2017.
0:09.0	Today, more than half of the world's population lives in cities.
0:14.0	The urbanization process started in the late 1700s and has been increasing since then.
0:20.0	The prediction is that by 2050,
0:23.8	66 percent of the population will live in cities,
0:26.9	and the United Nations,
0:29.0	the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum
0:32.0	are warning us.
0:33.9	If we don't plan for the increased density,
0:36.6	current problems in our cities like inequality, congestion, crime can only get worse.
0:42.3	As a result, urban planners and city developers
0:45.3	are putting a lot of effort and creativity
0:49.3	in designing our future, denser, bigger cities.
0:53.3	But I have a different opinion.
0:56.0	I think urbanization is actually reaching the end of its cycle,
1:00.0	and now people are going to start moving back to the countryside.
1:04.0	And you may think, but what about the trend?
1:07.0	Well, let me tell you.
1:09.0	Socioeconomic trends don't last forever.
1:11.6	About 12,000 years ago,
1:13.6	everybody was perfectly happy,
1:16.6	roaming the land, hunting and gathering,
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