Coming: 3D, holograms, media anywhere, smart homes, smart cities, machine talking to machines, among other things.
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In some smart cities, these cars are also connected to public transportation grids making inner city traffic more manageable.
It takes smart citizens today to build the smart cities of the future!
Research at the smart cities center, she said, will include smart thermostats "that learn our personal needs and habits and adjust themselves, " conserving energy.
Smart Cities offer a healthier and more prosperous place to live.
It began as a conversation between Mitchell and architect Frank Gehry who acted as guest critic to the car's development by the Smart Cities research group at MIT.
Smart cities are seeing value in energizing their urban core.
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Marseille, tourist epicenter during next year and the second most populated city in France, it's the ideal place to continue the growth trajectory of development of WiFi smart cities in France and in the World of GOWEX.
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"Smart builds upon the existing concept of 'smart cities', physical spaces which are covered in an array of intelligent sensors which communicate with each other and can be searched for information, " said Dr Iadh Ounis of the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science.
Saskia Sassen, co-chair on the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University and a leading expert on smart cities, draws parallels with the office buildings of the sixties, which she describes as "low-ceiling places now standing sad and empty as advanced technologies render them useless".
It would take four big changes, but the technology for all of them is already available: a new automotive DNA based on electronics and connectivity, a mobility internet to manage vast amounts of vehicle traffic and integrate vehicles into the internet of things, smart, clean renewable electric energy, and last but not least, it would require electronically managed, dynamically priced markets for electricity, roads, parking and vehicles, in other words, smart cities.
One way to convert a smart city atheist could be to help cities make smart technology choices based on their consumer identity.
This is a smart move if you think cities produce agglomeration effects.
It is no news to those of us who live in cities and own smart phones that we are using them to get information about restaurants.
The smart phone app Uber allows people in cities to hail an idle limo to take them to their destination.
Increased urbanisation means that cities will have to find smart solutions to ensure they run smoothly and have minimal impact on the environment.
Instead, smart shoppers are looking at traditionally less-popular cities than the typical "Grand Circle" stops such as London, Paris and Rome.
True to form, inaction from the federal government has sparked the innovation of states, cities and metropolitan areas that are teeming with smart, pragmatic and bipartisan solutions to national economic challenges.
This Administration has made smart infrastructure investment a priority, both to create jobs and to build a strong future for our cities.
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But around them, where smart Japanese department stores once were, will stand the big western names that now tower over the cities of Europe and America.
Of particular note, is Lenovo's continued strength in China's emerging cities, and the Company continues to build its reputation with other product offerings such as smart phones, tablets and smart TVs, as it leads China's customers into the PC Plus era.
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The gleaming towers, swank restaurants, and smart shops remain, but Chicago is experiencing a steep decline quite different from that of many other large cities.
The goal is to expand car2go from four U.S. cities to more than 20 by 2016 and to give free participation in the program to all smart owners, Winkler says.
While the other panelists are passionate about their visions of how cities will be connected and made more efficient by mobile devices, Manel proclaims himself to be a smart city atheist .
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