Telepathic urbanism
Our own Anthony Townsend is too modest to mention it, but he gave an excellent talk at the recent conference in Ann Arbor. Joshua Kauffman, an exciting young futurist talent, blogs it:
Anthony Townsend of the Institute for the Future discussed the role of mobile devices in the future of the city. With mobiles, people can record, document, and annotate social space. Ideas, insights and emotions can be transmitted. Townsend calls this functional telepathy “telepathic urbanism.”
Telepathic Urbanism would help us experiment with new social ways of urban living that are based on real-time information and feedback. Thus we could get more out of the existing structures of cities and optimize our lives in them through a better representation of their energy, resource and material realities.
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