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Re-Inventing Cities

Re-Inventing Cities. Colin Harrison IBM Distinguished Engineer Emeritus StartupFest, 10 July 2014, Montreal. A few successes and (mostly) failures. Successes 1974 Distributed, real-time control system (CERN) 1978 First clinical MRI system (EMI) 1992 Mobile Wi-Fi MAC-Link protocol

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Re-Inventing Cities

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  1. Re-Inventing Cities Colin Harrison IBM Distinguished Engineer Emeritus StartupFest, 10 July 2014, Montreal

  2. A few successes and (mostly) failures • Successes • 1974 Distributed, real-time control system (CERN) • 1978 First clinical MRI system (EMI) • 1992 Mobile Wi-Fi MAC-Link protocol • 2008 Smart Cities Architecture • … and so forth • Failures • 1980 Magnetic Bubble Memory • 1985 Medical Imaging business • 1993 Mobile Web • 1996 Intelligent Agents • 2003 eLearning • … and so forth

  3. The world’s greatest innovation…

  4. Gilgamesh built the city of Uruk…

  5. Cities exist to allow large numbers of people to live in close proximity. Why?

  6. Cities have interesting scaling properties…

  7. Fig. 1 Scaling of urban infrastructure and socioeconomic output.(A) Total lane miles (volume) of roads in U.S. metropolitan areas (MSAs) in 2006 (blue dots). L M A Bettencourt Science 2013;340:1438-1441 Published by AAAS

  8. Invention scales faster than population Metropolitan Patenting, Inventor Agglomeration and Social Networks: A Tale of Two Effects by Deborah Strumsky, José Lobo, Lee Fleming

  9. The Urbanisation Challenge

  10. The Urbanisation-Innovation Challenge • Today 3-4 bn people live in cities • Some 200,000 people per week migrate into cities and increase their resource consumption (become richer) • If nothing changes, by 2100 we expect to add another 3-4 bnurban residents • If nothing changes, there will not be sufficient water, food, and raw materials for that urban population • Not to mention the environmental impact • Implicitly, we are assuming that we will innovate our way out of this problem • The size of the “innovation gap” is hot research topic

  11. Ladies and gentlemen of the Start Up community…we have work to do!

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