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Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up.

~Carlo Ratti

Topics: Away End Ends Recycled Some Thrown Trash Up Where

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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.

~Carlo Ratti

Topics: Closing Create Curtain Developed Fall Got Ideas Images Imagine Like Made Mit Opening Patterns Pipe Show Text Those Water Workshop Write You

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The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.

~Carlo Ratti

Topics: Autonomous Back Bringing Car Century Cheap Closer Cost Date Example Eye First For Example Human Increases Late Market Now Recent Reductions Reflected See Similar Sophistication Street Systems Way Which 20Th Century

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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.

~Carlo Ratti

Topics: Campaign Digital Digital World First First Time Go Networks Obama Physical Power Time Today Us World

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We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time.

~Carlo Ratti

Topics: Becoming Certain City Condition Describe Digital Digital Technology Distributed Environment Ever First First Time Increasingly Real Real Time Sense Smaller Technology Time Where

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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

~Carlo Ratti

Topics: Also Away Behavioral Bottle Change Day Every Every Day People Plastic Promote Show Some Stays Still Then Throwing

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Makr Shakr aims to share this new potential - design-make-enjoy - with everyone in just a few minutes: the time taken to prepare a new cocktail.

~Carlo Ratti

Topics: Aims Cocktail Everyone Few Just Minutes New Potential Prepare Share Taken Time

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When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.

~Carlo Ratti

Topics: Around Ask Away Better Bottles Day Decisions Dump Efficient Every Every Day Go How Make More Moving Perhaps Plastic System Then Throw Traces Trash Will You Yourself

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Cities are 2% of the earth's crust, but they are 50% of the world's population.

~Carlo Ratti

Topics: Cities Crust Earth Population World

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As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps.

~Carlo Ratti

Topics: Browse Capturing Flows Google Maps Networks People Real Real Time Talk Text Them Time Traffic Urban

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Architect

Born: Unknown

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