
Listen to the podcast Follow me on Twitter Innovation is a global issue. In a new poll released by Newsweek and Intel, 75% of Americans say that technology innovation is more important than ever but over half fear that the Great Recession has hurt the ability of US companies to innov...

Intelligent Community Forum ICF's new book, Future Cities, is now available on Amazon.com (search "Future Cities Pelton") and from the ICF Web site www.intelligentcommunity.org
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At the start of the 20th century, only about 10% of humanity lived in cities. Today, over 50% live in urban environments. By the middle of the 21st century, the number could be as high as 70%. For that reason, making cities smarter may well be the key to the survival of the human race....

As I am writing this, it is Halloween and I am reminded of my recent trip to Romania - Transylvania. Dracula. Nicolae Ceausescu. The latter being the scariest, having built what has been described as the second largest building in the world, only after the Pentagon, during his dark reign...

Listen to the podcast Follow me on Twitter It was way back in 590 AD that Pope Gregory the First made the list of human frailties we know today as the Seven Deadly Sins. These are not the big sins covered by the Talmud

Dakota Future is a countywide economic development corporation in Dakota County, Minnestoa on the southern edge of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area. Within the county, we have more than a dozen communities, six chambers of commerce, a county community development agency, three workforce centers ...

The rain is easing a little and hopefully it will stop by 6:00 PM (EST). The New York Yankees are scheduled to play the first game of the baseball playoffs tonight, but it is not certain whether the game is going forward. Ours is: I am preparing my remarks for this evening and the ICF team is...

People in 21 communities around the world, from Danville, Virginia to Trikala, Greece to Suwon, Korea will wake-up (or have already gotten up) to receive the news that they are among the Smart21 for 2010 and now need to plan for the Top Seven selection which is our next phase....

Intelligent Community Forum At the Smart21 Communities of the Year announcement on Friday, October 16, ICF will also announce publication of its next book: Future Cities, edited by Dr. Joseph N. Pelton and Dr. Indu B. Singh. It is about the future of urban centers and how they will ultimately shape the future of the planet.











