The Future of Smarter Cities: People + How Much Technology?

Technology Revolution: The Future of Now

Bonnie D Graham

News, Business News, Technology

4.9 • 112 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Buzz 1: “Smart cities are the intelligent cities of positivity and happy-energy, not the junkyards of technologies but cities of diversity, love, life, beauty, dignity, freedom, tolerance, and equality.” (Amit Ray, author: Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity) The Buzz 2: “The banning of bullfighting in Catalonia was controversial and hard won and has now been replaced by the vacuous global consumption of the mall. I'm sure that is an advance for the bulls but I'm not sure how well it bodes for the serious business of being a city. (Edwin Heathcote, The Financial Times architecture and design critic) The Buzz 3: “The second mode [to deal with unsafe cities] is to take refuge in vehicles. This is the technique practiced in the big wild-animal reservations of Africa, where tourists are warned to leave their cars under no circumstances until they reach a lodge. It is also the technique practiced in Los Angeles.” (Jane Jacobs, author: The Death and Life of Great American Cities) The Buzz 4: “Urbanization has lured more people to bustling metropolises, but precious little thought has been given to what happens when these cities fail…For all the famed cities with thousands of years of continuity – Paris, London, Cairo, Athens, Rome, Istanbul – most cities just stop.” (Ben Paynter, Fast Company senior writer) We’ll ask Don DeLoach at Rocket Wagon Venture Studios, Brenna Berman at City Tech, John Robbins at Turner & Townsend, and Peter Torrellas at Parsons for their take on The Future of Smarter Cities: People + How Much Technology?

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0:00.0	Where does yesterday's future, which is already here, ready here, really here, meet today's future, which is about to happen, and tomorrow's future, which could be just minutes away?
0:16.4	Welcome to Technology Revolution, the future of now.
0:27.6	Where host Bonnie D. Graham asks savvy futurists for their predictions about the tech-driven trends that are shaping our future right now.
0:31.0	Here's your host who will take us into the future of now.
0:34.9	Bonnie D. Graham.
0:36.5	Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, technology revolution. I have some
0:39.9	sad news to share at the top of the show. I'm going to try and hold it together. On Monday,
0:44.4	the 15th of November, the world lost Jeffrey Spinnard, who was the visionary who founded Voice
0:50.2	America World Talk Radio LLC. He was a friend, a mentor, a tireless innovator. He created a
0:57.0	massive radio network, one of the leaders in internet programming. I've been affiliated with
1:01.5	Voice America since 2011. And Jeffrey Spinnard answered a phone call, a cold call I made to him,
1:07.5	and I said, hey, I'd like to create a radio show. We spoke. We started dealing
1:12.4	on it. I went back to my managers at SAP, and I said, let me start a thought leadership radio show.
1:17.4	And they accepted the proposal. That turned into 52 radio series I've created in 11 years for
1:23.6	the business channel on Voice America. Jeffrey hasrey has been a friend as i said a mentor
1:27.9	i was on a memorial call with the staff at voice america yesterday and everybody was in tears
1:32.5	because he changed so many lives for the better so geoffrey i'm wearing a white flower
1:38.2	in your honor today instead of my usual red rose and i know you're seeing it so thank you
1:43.1	geoffrey for the opportunity thank you for bringing voice america to. So thank you Jeffrey for the opportunity. Thank
1:45.0	you for bringing Voice America to the world. Thank you for being the friend for so many.
1:48.0	And I know Aaron Keller, our engineer today, is also indebted to you for your friendship, your kindness, your mentorship, and for meaning so much to all of us.
1:56.0	Now, I'm going to be a big girl and take a deep breath and we're going to get the show started. We're also welcoming a sponsor today. We're going to hear about advanced risk machines
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