The question is whether the digital twin can take the smart city into the mainstream.
The time has come for smart cities to transition from expensive, limited experiments to practical projects within reach of a broad spectrum of communities. This transition’s momentum is accelerated by a number of changes in the urban environment and in the digital arena.
Rapid urbanization and population growth, increased sustainability demands, climate change and shifting popular expectations are ramping up pressure on urban planners to transform the smart city from an abstract concept to actual living communities.
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Cities around the world are transitioning toward smarter and more efficient living, marking the end of the third-generation (3G) network era as faster networks rise to the forefront.
The transition to a faster network is being accelerated by the planned shutdown of all 3G networks over the next 12 months by Australia’s major telecommunications providers, which include Telstra, Vodafone, and Optus.
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As new technologies remake cities around the world, the most impactful and equitable technology-driven urban health interventions will have three core ingredients: data, connectivity, and collaboration.
At the intersection of technology and healthcare, there’s often an uncomfortable question about equity: Even if a new medical innovation can deliver impressive outcomes, what if the intervention remains too expensive to benefit most patients? Recently, that issue has become front and center in the public health vs. precision healthcare debate.
Don’t you wish you were living in a world like the Jetsons? Or maybe when Marty McFly goes to the future and sees a world unknown to him. It would be awesome to have gadgets like those in Back to the Future. As technological advancements get more advanced at a much faster rate, it won’t be surprising to see some new gizmo that will revolutionize life — just like the Industrial Revolution did in the mid-1800s or the computer did in the 1970s — soon.
But what if we told you there are already cities out there that are pretty futuristic? If you go visit some countries in Asia, you might look around in awe and ponder if you transport yourself in a time machine to the future. Get someone to pinch you to realize you are in the present. Let’s take a look at the 11 most futuristic cities in the world. These cities are so technologically advanced, that they are living life like the year 3000.
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The man who created Sandy Springs, Georgia, has some advice for those who want to a build a metropolis in northern California. Peter Thiel’s floating city in French Polynesia. Elon Musk’s self-sustaining city on Mars. Bill Gates’ smart city in Arizona. Long before a host of the biggest players in Silicon Valley set their sights on creating a new city in Solano County, California, many billionaires thought they could start their own utopia. But one man, a retired AT&T executive from Georgia, has actually been able to do it—for better or for worse.
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