Thinking Cities, Networked Society - Ericsson

http://ericsson.com/networkedsociety
The documentary 'Thinking Cities' deals with one of the most dramatic societal trends happening today: urbanization. The world population is expected to soar to more than 9 billion people by 2050, with roughly 70 percent living in cities. At the same time, Information Communications Technology (ICT) is extending its reach.

These parallel trends are intersecting at a time in which the world faces serious economic, environmental, and social challenges in achieving a more sustainable development. Thinking Cities explores the challenges and opportunities of urbanization in the Networked Society.

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Science & Technology

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• networked
• society'
• 'Ericsson'
• 'thinking
• cities'
• 'trailer'
• 'documentary'
• 'educational'
• 'urbanization'
• 'urbanisation'
• 'trend'
• 'shaping
• ideas'
• 'on
• the
• brink'
• 'Geoffrey
• West'
• 'Matthieu
• Lefevre'
• 'Nigel
• Jacobs'
• 'Carlo
• Ratti'
• Education
• Culture

[AlMacTCG]

Flux Capacitor at 10:17!!

[kidcopernicus]

This is amazing, but can we lose the fucking soundtrack with the marimba? When's H.I. McDunnough going to start the voiceover, I mean come on, yo! Played out sounds. New city of the future needs music of the future.

[gavranarh]

very vague. just another feelgood likable video to boost ericsson's image, spinning off all the mayor themes and buzzwords to the generic apple-ish xylophone soundtrack (I can almost hear Jony Ive-I guess you're aiming for the same if not their demographic?)

give us something real, we're fed up with the PR BS, we see right through it.

[TheZhanggster]

wait there was a nerf gun in the mayor's office... 10:41

[ignace2009]

Note to Geoffrey West: no, you did not invent the scientific analysis of cities. Been there, done that. Like, 150 years ago?

a) check out “Christaller's Central-Place Theory” in Wikipedia,

b) yes the economies of scale make cities efficient but there is such a thing as a “diseconomy” of scale,

c) pretending that humans are not part of the homeostasis of the natural order of Earth’s ecosystems will doom us, and

d) thus, there is a maximum size to a city, beyond which it is unsustainable.

[ignace2009]

Very sneaky how they quietly referred to "ICT" several times during video.

Is this really just more advertising for Ericsson?

[ignace2009]

So the 2nd and 3rd persons interviewed couldn't even answer why they want to live in a city? Lame. (Hint1: maybe they don't know. Hint2: maybe they really don't want to but that's where the jobs are so ................)

[SmackBear2SmckCat]

Is it me, or did George Orwell look into the future, I don't want to live in a world where things that did move forward, were the wrong things, I don't want to be controlled by a government and I don't want to the world to become one big city. This concept of "Networked Society" will make some huge advances, but I don't like the idea of this because it seems to good to be true.

[sysop3]

Great video!

[shawzie1916]

Its thoughts like that which caused our society to become so fucked, "everything needs to be different, I don't care... just different". If it ain't broke why fix it

[VanillaCokeFriends]

NEXT KONY 2012 VIDEO!!!!! LOL

[HerFluffiness]

Wow. This is a good documentary.