I should read The New Yorker more often. I’m going to subscribe right now (done). The articles are fantastic. In the April 3, 2017 issue, Siddartha Mukherjee wrote a piece talking about automated medicine. It’s called A.I. Versus M.D. Here is an excerpt: His prognosis… Read More
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70 years of LA
The New Yorker recently published an interesting split-screen video tour of the same streets in downtown LA in the 1940s and today. They have done a great job pairing up the same views and also panning in such a way that the middle divider seems… Read More
Uber, commuting, car ownership, and the future of urban mobility
Earlier this week I wrote a “Tech Tuesday” post talking about Uber’s new Smart Routes functionality, which it is currently testing out in San Francisco. At the end of the post I ended by saying that it’s not just the taxi industry that should be thinking… Read More
Gentrification and corporate shuttle buses
A couple of months ago I had coffee with an urban planner who had recently relocated from the Bay Area back to Toronto. One of the interesting things that came up during our conversation – that I hadn’t really given a lot of thought to… Read More