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Should technology improve cities, or should cities improve technology? I was honoured this week to be invited to join the Academy of Urbanism, a society of professionals, academics and policy makers from a variety of backgrounds whose work is concerned in some way with cities.

Should technology improve cities, or should cities improve technology?

As a technology professional who has increasingly worked in an urban context over the past few years, I try to be as conscious of what I don’t know about cities as what I do; and I’m hoping that the Academy will offer me the opportunity to learn from its many expert members. In fact, in a discussion today with an expert from the property development sector, I found myself reversing my usual direction of thinking concerning the relationship between technology and cities: when asked “how can technology contribute to improving property development” I replied that I was more interested in the question “how can property development improve technology?”.

(Photo of machines from the industrial revolution in Birmingham’s Science Museum by Chris Moore) (Photo byC. La petite révolution de l’intelligence collective. Plus ludique que l'intelligence artificielle, l'intelligence collective, soit la mise en relation via le net d'une grande quantité de cerveaux humains, vient de réaliser quelques prouesses.

La petite révolution de l’intelligence collective

Telle l'identification de centaines de cratères lunaires pour la NASA ou la mise en évidence d'une enzyme du VIH. À l'origine de ces nouveaux modes de recherche : le nombre d'heures hebdomadaires que nous passons, sur Terre, à jouer en ligne.

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