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14Sep
The digital city is continuously growing
12 September 1969: a team of the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) is the first to connect two machines with ARPAnet: one on UCLA and one on the Stanford-university in Palo Alto. Few people know that’s the day the internet was invented. Almost 50 years ago. But it…
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11Sep
The rise of the Microtransit movement
Three main trends in transportation Technology site Techcrunch recently reported on three main trends reshaping the future of mobility: on electric, driverless and on demand. These three developments, each in their own stage of development, are collectively reshaping mobility in the 21th century and might be the solution to fast…
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01Aug
Thinking in The Long Tail
The digital city, where everything is connected to the internet, makes thinking in the long tail possible: tailored solutions for people who don’t fit in mainstream solutions. Chris Anderson came up with this name as a philosophy for this age of internet: the long tail. He first mentioned it in…
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28Jul
Smart Mobility: Disruptie op drie niveaus
De stad uitgedaagd Ontwikkelingen in ICT zoals Big Data en het Internet of Things versnellen het tempo van de technologische verbeteringen op exponentiele wijze. Door de “wet van Moore” wordt verwacht dat de invloed van ICT op de samenleving als geheel –en daarmee ook de stad- ingrijpend toeneemt, of het…
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27Jul
Smart Mobility: Disruption on three levels
The city challenged Due to advancements in ICT, such as Big Data and the Internet of Things, the rate of technological improvement is exponentially accelerating. As a result of ‘Moore’s Law’, the impact of ICT on society in general –including urbanism- is also expected to increase in an exponential manner,…
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27Jul
Govert Hamers “Hoe slimmer je de container laadt, hoe beter”
Interview met Govert Hamers, CEO Vanderlande, in aanloop naar het Smart Industry Event. “In alle sectoren is het nu lonend om distributiecentra te automatiseren. Niet alleen de (post)pakketjes en bagage, maar ook in de voedingsmiddelen.” Dat zegt Govert Hamers, CEO bij Vanderlande, het bedrijf dat de koffers op Schiphol naar…
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22Jul
The definition of ”smart”
A blog on what ‘smart’ is. Exploring smartness is inevitable as concepts like ‘smart city’ take hold, as panacea it often seems. The more we know the easier it is to find the right approach to what currently seem intractable problems. Such is the assumption. In this atmosphere wisely defining…
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