What Is The Future Of Cities? | Mike Walsh | Futurist Keynote Speaker

What is the future of cities? Daring architecture, delivery drones, self-driving cars, vertical farms, city brains controlling traffic or renewable energy and smart grids? It is likely that the cities of tomorrow will be built not only with bricks and mortar, but with data and algorithms. However, when you spend time in extraordinary places like Mexico City, home to over 22 million people, you begin to realize that despite accelerating technology and devastating pandemics, people continue to flock to crowded, dense and chaotic communities because of factors unique to the human condition. Cities, like companies, are complex adaptive systems - and understanding their dynamics may be the key to not only how we will live in the future, but also the future of how we will work.
Thinking about the future of cities is more than just a question for architects, builders and urban planners. At the heart of the post-pandemic debate about remote work and the return to the office is the issue of productivity, and what really drives innovation and collaboration. Despite accelerating technology and devastating pandemics, people continue to flock to crowded, dense and chaotic communities because of factors unique to the human condition. Cities, like companies, are complex adaptive systems - and understanding their dynamics may be the key to not only how we will live in the future, but also the future of how we will work.
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