Victor AI: How do megacities evolve? On September 9th, Victor AI, founder and CEO of Terminus Group, was invited to Tencent Global Digital Ecology Conference and delivered a speech on AI CITY. According to Victor AI's opinion, the AI CITY should be understood as an advanced stage of the ...
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
megacities, type I megacities, and type II megacities as large cities; and other cities as medium and small citiesFootnote2, and the regression results are shown in Table13. The regression results show that SCP has a better and significantly stronger effect on employment in large cities...
For example, the number of megacities with a population of more than 5 million increased from 2 to 16 from 1978 to 2010 (CPC Central Committee and State Council, 2014). The growing city size has greatly improved residents' quality of life not only by increasing job opportunities and income ...
Society's understanding of technology and cybersecurity often is based on simple stereotypes and sensational portrayals in the entertainment media. I've written about how certain scenariosare entertaining but misleading. Think of black-clad teenage hackers prowling megacities challenging corporate villains....
To develop the extreme water level analysis framework the Maeslant storm surge barrier in the Netherlands is used as case study. Three features make this barrier a logical starting point for this study. Firstly, its iconic nature – the Maeslant barrier is seen worldwide as a good example for...
Avoiding unnecessary disruptions keeps civilization humming.Many ancient water technologies could be catalysts for solving the world's water problems today. They could help deliver water to growing megacities, like Lima, Peru. With over 10 million people in its metro region, Lima ...
If we are going to escape biology, how are we going to do it? In the year 2050, there will be almost 10 billion people in the world, and all of those people will want the things that you and I want: nice cars, nice clothes, nice homes, the odd chunk of Toblerone. I mean, thi...
Few literatures urge future megacities-region and heatwave adaptation scenarios (Marcotullio et al., 2020); and in the urban context of the Mediterranean heatwave and its adaptation strategies (Maggiotto et al., 2021). In Bangladesh, heatwave acts on human health and individual performance, ...
“In recent years, there have been a number of excellent historical mysteries set in India,” says Nagendra, “but these are largely in north Indian megacities—Bombay, Calcutta, and Delhi. I love Bangalore—not only is it my favorite city, but also a place which I am very familiar with...