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stotheco Of the three you mentioned, I only find one of them to be a major concern. It doesn't look that dorky to me; I've seen other eyewear and accessories that look even more dorky than the Glass. As for...
stotheco Once more, information is power. Congestion is unavoidable especially in hugely populated areas. Either people have to find areas with less taxed cell sites or the telco puts up more cells.
Mary Jander We had a great presentation today from Carrie Higbie. In case you missed it live, the archive will be available at this time tomorrow. Just click here for that tomorrow.
CitySolver I think the hotel comparison is good. So many meeting happen in public places, but if we could rent ut an office for a few hours, we would get the best of privacy and conveinience and maybe even...
thinbluedba Great questions DigitalDruid! I find with many projects, there's always a great big push from the start to ramp up resources and funding to create a new system/application, yet when the job...
Mary Jander Gotcha. I was envisioning a situation in which companies actually closed big offices in order to support distributed home workers and smaller satellite offices. There are elaborate ROI writeups that...
Nicole Ferraro Absolutely, Mary, but that's why I'm saying that perhaps creating more work spaces, which have to be maintained, may just be even more wasteful, since we're not yet at a point where traditional office...
Mary Jander Startups are only one type of organization that calls for workers to have physical proximity. Product development, prototyping, marketing, advertising, financial work... the list goes on. To do it...
Mary Jander While I agree with you regarding the use of space, Nicole, don't forget that building use is another issue. If employees stay home to work, they don't tax the transit system, or require heating and...
Nicole Ferraro Great post, Mary. I am all about civic hacking and making the most of the insane amount of data we're creating every day, and I'm obviously happy to see New York embracing this. I've downloaded...
Mary Jander You're totally right, NewDream. I was free to roam the neighborhood, create my own schedule, go out at night without curfew. And I didn't abuse the rules -- that is, what rules there were. Many parents...
Mary Jander Agreed, Mujuku! I heartily welcome these apps. I think cities serve as the best example of using data for analytics. And I think the future of most cities depends on how well IT executes.
richheap I don't know if you create more office space on a net basis as allowing workers to work like this also suggests a business would be using its main office more efficiently: hot desking to reduce the...
NewDream I'd love to pat myself on the back for acquiring wisdom, but I think there are two major factors working together here. - We grew up to expect privacy because there was privacy, or at least the...
Mujuku I like the kind of experimentation that this kind of contest encourages. We are at a very early stage, and I'm sure that some very worthwhile apps will emerge in time. A friend of mine started an...
Nicole Ferraro I suppose what keeps me skeptical here, then, is the fact that a WorkShop would really just be supplemental to a standard office (if they're being used in the way you've described in your comment),...
Nicole Ferraro I agree with your overall point, Resurgent, that it depends on the industry. The start-up example is interesting, though, because quite often you do find start-ups working in these sort of informal...
Mary Jander Haha.... yet! You know, NewDream, I sometimes think that us "older" folk -- by which I mean those who did not have cellphones in grammar school -- have a sense of privacy that is not shared by those...
Mary Jander Haha.... yet! You know, NewDream, I sometimes think that us "older" folk -- by which I mean those who did not have cellphones in grammar school -- have a sense of privacy that is not shared by those...
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Datacenter scalability, once a term used mostly in the private-sector industry, is now used regularly by municipal governments. For good reason: The time when a handful of servers ...
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"Wherever I lay my hat, that's my home," sung Marvin Gaye. For workers in cities, it's more a case of "Wherever I lay my smartphone, that's my office."
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6/6/2013
Smart cities rely on a complex web of underlying technologies, from a range of contributors. And phone companies are starting to emerge with a special role.
Pablo Valerio, International Business & IT Consultant
6/3/2013
In a typical European or American city, there are over 50,000 cellular data users per square kilometer generating 300 GB of data daily. This number will increase tenfold by 2015.
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5/23/2013
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stotheco Of the three you mentioned, I only find one of them to be a major concern. It doesn't look that dorky to me; I've seen other eyewear and accessories that look even more dorky than the Glass. As for...
stotheco Once more, information is power. Congestion is unavoidable especially in hugely populated areas. Either people have to find areas with less taxed cell sites or the telco puts up more cells.
Mary Jander We had a great presentation today from Carrie Higbie. In case you missed it live, the archive will be available at this time tomorrow. Just click here for that tomorrow.
CitySolver I think the hotel comparison is good. So many meeting happen in public places, but if we could rent ut an office for a few hours, we would get the best of privacy and conveinience and maybe even...
thinbluedba Great questions DigitalDruid! I find with many projects, there's always a great big push from the start to ramp up resources and funding to create a new system/application, yet when the job...
Mary Jander Gotcha. I was envisioning a situation in which companies actually closed big offices in order to support distributed home workers and smaller satellite offices. There are elaborate ROI writeups that...
Nicole Ferraro Absolutely, Mary, but that's why I'm saying that perhaps creating more work spaces, which have to be maintained, may just be even more wasteful, since we're not yet at a point where traditional office...
Mary Jander Startups are only one type of organization that calls for workers to have physical proximity. Product development, prototyping, marketing, advertising, financial work... the list goes on. To do it...
Mary Jander While I agree with you regarding the use of space, Nicole, don't forget that building use is another issue. If employees stay home to work, they don't tax the transit system, or require heating and...
Nicole Ferraro Great post, Mary. I am all about civic hacking and making the most of the insane amount of data we're creating every day, and I'm obviously happy to see New York embracing this. I've downloaded...
Mary Jander You're totally right, NewDream. I was free to roam the neighborhood, create my own schedule, go out at night without curfew. And I didn't abuse the rules -- that is, what rules there were. Many parents...
Mary Jander Agreed, Mujuku! I heartily welcome these apps. I think cities serve as the best example of using data for analytics. And I think the future of most cities depends on how well IT executes.
richheap I don't know if you create more office space on a net basis as allowing workers to work like this also suggests a business would be using its main office more efficiently: hot desking to reduce the...
NewDream I'd love to pat myself on the back for acquiring wisdom, but I think there are two major factors working together here. - We grew up to expect privacy because there was privacy, or at least the...
Mujuku I like the kind of experimentation that this kind of contest encourages. We are at a very early stage, and I'm sure that some very worthwhile apps will emerge in time. A friend of mine started an...
Nicole Ferraro I suppose what keeps me skeptical here, then, is the fact that a WorkShop would really just be supplemental to a standard office (if they're being used in the way you've described in your comment),...
Nicole Ferraro I agree with your overall point, Resurgent, that it depends on the industry. The start-up example is interesting, though, because quite often you do find start-ups working in these sort of informal...
Mary Jander Haha.... yet! You know, NewDream, I sometimes think that us "older" folk -- by which I mean those who did not have cellphones in grammar school -- have a sense of privacy that is not shared by those...
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