Danish - Designer | June 28, 1970 -
Urban planning and design are helping us to shift from a car-centric system to a bike-centric one by making bicycles and bicycle infrastructure superior in functionality and attractiveness.
Jens Martin Skibsted
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Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world's workforce: robots are - or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.
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A structured design approach can heighten the hit rate in the fuzzy front end of innovation processes in public and private sectors.
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People are not going to change because an activist goes around shouting.
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I've seen many of those brand collaborations where, basically, the only point is sticking on a Gucci sticker. That degrades good brands.
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Our houses, shops, and factories waste gigantic amounts of energy, often in the form of excess heat. How do we slash this waste? The answer is fairly simple: with a smart thermal water grid.
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Who needs Russian gas if we could get all the heat we need from our own surplus? Who needs Middle Eastern oil, when we can integrate limitless renewable sources in our smart grids?
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The sun doesn't always shine; the wind doesn't always blow. This is why, if we want to rely on renewables, we need intelligent systems that integrate and coordinate different sources of energy at scale so that when one is scarce or unavailable, the others can automatically compensate.
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Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy resides.
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How people move around their city is a big deal. It affects productivity, security, health, and global warming, among other things.
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Cities are complex and contain just about any thing or concept ever invented by humans. How the city is built, its topography, and how close you live to your work and a grocery store affects your mobility.
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Just imagine how many more cyclists could help save our cities and prevent further global warming by adopting electric bikes, if they received strategic and financial support similar to electric car drivers.
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