By John Glenday
In cities around the world, the drone of jackhammers is being met with the clacking of keyboards and the hum of computers tasked with building a new generation of metropolises, built from silicon rather than concrete. A new breed of brash and flash utopias from Masdar to Songdo is already emerging across the Far and Middle East, fueled by petrodollars and double-digit growth rates. However, the rather more prosaic retrofitting of sensors and fiber broadband in places such Bristol and Glasgow offers a more illuminating – if less immediately obvious – view of our future. Can these sci-fi visions deliver Read full story ›
Source: The Drum
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