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The Future is Now Smart Mobility for Smart Cities WHATEVER WE TRY TO PREDICT FOR THE
TRANSFORMATION IS DONE RIGHT,
FUTURE HAS A CERTAIN CHANCE TO TURN
IT’S LIKE A CATERPILLAR TURNING INTO
OUT AS BULLSHIT. REMEMBER THE WORDS
A BUTTERFLY…”. THE KEY QUESTION IS
OF THOMAS J. WATSON SR., IBM CHAIRMAN,
HOW TO MAKE THE DIGITAL TRANSFOR-
WHO SAID IN DISTANT 1943: “I THINK
MATION OF MOBILITY HAPPEN IN SUCH
THERE IS A WORLD MARKET FOR ABOUT 5
A WAY THAT YOU GET A BEAUTIFUL BUT-
COMPUTERS.” NEVERTHELESS, TIME WENT
TERFLY AND NOT ANOTHER CATERPILLAR.
BY, THE TECHNOLOGICAL SCENERY HAS BEEN CHANGING FOLLOWING ITS OWN LAWS. MODERN KEY OPINION LEADER IN DIGITAL ECONOMY GEORGE WESTER-
However, before hastily implementing unproven disruptive technologies, why don’t we learn first how to sustainably manage all the assets that we have already produced within at least the last two centuries?
MAN RETHOUGHT THE SITUATION IN THE FOLLOWING WAY: “WHEN DIGITAL
We still have a chance to make our existing assets more sustainable. In 2005, researcher Tim Roughgarden (Stanford
