Technology is not just a tool cities can use to manage their tremendous growth; it’s a big part of what’s driving it, too. Harvard economist Edward Glaeser... argues that following a century of technological innovations that made distance less important, from the automobile to video games, technology has more recently begun to boost cities by creating a more “idea-intensive and complicated world.” As social beings, we tackle these challenges especially well in close proximity to one another. Technology is “moving us toward an economy that very much rewards intelligence and innovation,” says Glaeser, “and that moves us in the direction of urbanization.
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 15:47:01 +0000
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