Over the course of the past month, I have been involved in a series of conversations–webinars, online conferences, television programs–regarding the effects of the ongoing pandemic on the contours of the post-pandemic world. These were prompted by commissioned opinion piece on the spatial logic of quarantine that I published on the website of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, entitled ““When the world is again unparked, will it know how to unplug?” Subsequent to that initial…
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Tag: smart cities
It is often the most modest media that prove successful, adaptable, and resilient over the long term. Such is the case of the podcast, a mode of communication born in the early 2000s, derived from radio, whose monthly US audience has now grown to around 90 million and whose global audience reaches well into the hundreds of millions. Even more striking are the numbers behind the numbers: a content production pipeline, for instance, that counts…
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As many friends are aware, since June 2015 I have been leading a new venture that seeks to pioneer smart approaches to the mobility of people and things: Piaggio Fast Forward. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near MIT and Harvard, the startup is a development partner of the Piaggio Group, the largest European manufacturer of two-wheel motor vehicles and one of the world leaders in its sector. The Piaggio Group product range includes e-bikes, scooters, and…
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