There’s a nice writeup of Ghost Road in this year’s list of best books on technology and innovation in Strategy + Business, the PwC magazine. Townsend is not another in a long line of hype merchants who have spent the past decade promising that self-driving vehicles were just around the
Rather than rushing out with a perspective early on in the pandemic that I’d later regret, I decided to wait and see how things shaped up. Finally, in late October 2020, I had a chance to reflect in Nautilus (article) on the year’s events, and the spatial shifts in and
For decades we have tried to build a car that will drive itself. Anthony M. Townsend’s Ghost Road argues convincingly that the driverless car is a red herring. When self-driving technology infects buses, bikes, delivery vans, and even buildings, a wild, woollier, future awaits.
The world’s cities have had a look at the future of automated vehicles. What have they seen?
How can cities harness AVs to solve pressing mobility challenges? What kinds of pilots can they undertake, and how should they run them?
¿Qué ocurrirá cuando los vehículos autónomos (AVs) sean usados alrededor de todo el mundo?
This paper is the first output from our ongoing work with the Urban Tech Hub @ Cornell Tech, and identifies key ethical dilemmas shaping the future of networks, sensing, and computation in cities. This discussion paper explores the emerging territory of urban tech. First, it reviews definitions of urban tech,
A new tool—the big data maturity model—can help cities think strategically about data-driven innovation.
A gathering of researchers and policy analysts building urban data maturity models finds common approaches and concerns.
What is the Internet of Things, and why should urbanists care?
Why do some cities grow, and others decline? What makes one city different from another, and what commonalities do they share? What is a city anyways?
What does the digital, urban future hold for the world’s most vulnerable populations?
