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Anthony M. Townsend


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Anthony M. Townsend is the author of Ghost Road and Smart Cities, and the president and founder of Star City Group, a strategic foresight and urban planning studio. He lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Average rating: 3.62 · 883 ratings · 94 reviews · 5 distinct worksSimilar authors
Smart Cities: Big Data, Civ...

3.60 avg rating — 811 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions
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Ghost Road: Beyond the Driv...

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[(Smart Cities)] [Author: A...

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“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

“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

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