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Smart tech is helping cities move towards regenerative urbanism – a model that actively restores ecosystems and reimagines city life through innovation and collaboration.
From Jane Jacobs' 1958 call for people-first urban design to today’s AI-powered smart cities, we explore how urban needs have stayed the same – even as the tools have transformed.
Explore key smart city market trends for 2025–2030, from EV infrastructure to AI-powered waste systems – backed by the latest industry report.
Learn how generative AI is unlocking the true potential of digital twins – to make smart cities more efficient, inclusive, and citizen-focused.
The smart cities of the future will use tech to lower emissions, cut urban temperatures, and improve quality of life in highly populated areas.
Discover the cities that rank highly for smart city preparedness, and learn why locally relevant innovation is more important than cutting-edge tech.
In The Economist’s future-gazing segment, The World Ahead 2024, technology is featuring heavily in predictions for transformation as we move into a new year.
We spend a lot of time talking to tech innovators, executives, developers, and entrepreneurs. And one of the stumbling blocks that comes up at every level is communication. The tech products with the greatest potential to have a real positive impact can be held back if company leaders can’t
When we interviewed Amy Peck (Founder and CEO at Endeavour XR) about her experience at LEAP, she said: “I am still so inspired by the event and the future vision in Saudi – I don’t think it will ever fade!” And she’s right: Saudi Arabia is a country that’
You stop at a tea stall at the side of the road. You don’t have any cash in your pocket – but it doesn’t matter, because the tea trader has a QR code. You can scan and pay on your phone. Ten minutes later, you’re back on the
It might sound a bit like something from Ghostbusters, but hyperspectral imagery is gaining interest (and investments) in the tech industry. It’s a technique that collects and processes information across the electromagnetic spectrum, in order to obtain the spectrum for every pixel within an image. This means that materials
Imagine a microscopic robot that could spiral through the human body’s vascular system, guided by sound, and deliver life-saving medicine as it goes. Along with his colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Daniel Ahmed (Professor of Acoustic Robotics for Life Sciences and Healthcare) is working on a
They’re the unsung heroes in daily life around the world – and today, we want to celebrate semiconductors. Because they deserve a little bit of attention. In simple terms, a semiconductor is a substance with particular electrical properties, through which it acts as a foundational technology for almost every type
Web3 (also called Web 3.0) is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web. The term was coined by Gavin Wood (Co-Founder of Ethereum) in 2014, and its innovators and thought leaders have focused on its integration with decentralised technology, blockchain, and token-based economic systems. But
