Anthony Townsend: The Future of Lightweight Innovation

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Partner:: Innovation Lab
Location:: Innovation Lab
Aarhus, Denmark
Event Date:: 09.01.10
Speaker:: Anthony Townsend
Tags:: Technology; regional planning; urban planning; public data

Summary: NEXT -- Nordic EXceptional Trendshop -- is a unique chance to get close to some of today’s greatest minds. NEXT is a vessel bound for the new, the odd angled and the unpredictable. A home ground for exceptional minds and their inventions. The first NEXT was held in 2004 and since then NEXT had grown to be an international -- and acclaimed -- landmark for forward thinking, the new and the next within technology and business oriented innovation.

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Anthony Townsend

Dr. Anthony Townsend's research focus is on the impact of new technology on cities and public institutions, and the role of technology in economic development. Recent forecasts he has developed at the Institute for the Future address several inter-related topics: the impact of urban data on the poor, national innovation strategy for a major emerging economy, technology and restructuring of large public organizations, and the role of science and technology parks in economic development.

Before joining IFTF, Anthony enjoyed a brief but productive academic career at New York University, where he directed research sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Homeland Security. In 2004 he was a Fulbright Exchange Scholar at the Seoul Development Institute in South Korea, studying the social impacts of broadband on the Seoul metropolitan region. He was one of the original founders of NYCwireless, a pioneer in the municipal wireless movement that promotes the use of public-access Wi-Fi in the development of local communities.

Anthony holds a Ph.D. in urban and regional planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master's in urban planning from New York University, and a B.A. in urban studies with a minor in physics from Rutgers University.

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01.: Introduction

03 min 13 sec

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02.: Idea Cards

02 min 24 sec

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03.: Prominent Trends

10 min 41 sec

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04.: Global Urbanization

04 min 03 sec

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05.: Battling Views of Future Smart Cities

03 min 45 sec

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06.: The Sensory Explosion

03 min 32 sec

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07.: New Applications for Urban Data

06 min 37 sec

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08.: Digital Animism

01 min 20 sec

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09.: Innovative Apps

02 min 31 sec

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10.: The Copenhagen Wheel

04 min 21 sec

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11.: What New Data Means

04 min 11 sec

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12.: Pushback Against Data Revolution

04 min 16 sec

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Anthony Townsend: The Future of Cloud Enabled Devices

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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

technology: Application of knowledge to the practical aims of human life or to changing and manipulating the human environment. Technology includes the use of materials, tools, techniques, and sources of power to make life easier or more pleasant and work more productive. Whereas science is concerned with how and why things happen, technology focuses on making things happen. Technology began to influence human endeavour as soon as people began using tools. It accelerated with the Industrial Revolution and the substitution of machines for animal and human labour. Accelerated technological development has also had costs, in terms of air and water pollution and other undesirable environmental effects.; technology on britannica.com