Anthony M. Townsend > Quotes

“Stop for a second to behold the miracle of engineering that these hand-held, networked computers represent—the typical CPU in a modern smartphone is ten times more powerful than the Cray-1 supercomputer installed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1976.”
― Anthony M. Townsend, Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

“With our days and nights increasingly stretched across the vastness of megacities, we’ve turned to these smart little gadgets to keep it all synchronized. It’s no accident that the most common text message, sent billions of times a year all over the world, is “where r u?”
― Anthony M. Townsend, Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

“cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.”
― Anthony M. Townsend, Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

“As auto use booms in China and India, more than 1.4 million road deaths occur worldwide every single year”
― Anthony M. Townsend, Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

“Smartphones in hand—over a billion worldwide by 2016, according to Forrester, a market research firm—we are reorganizing our lives and our communities around mass mobile communications.13”
― Anthony M. Townsend, Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia