Julio Gil: Future tech will give you the benefits of city life anywhere
胡李奧.吉爾: 未來科技可以讓你到處體驗城市生活的好處
UPS's Julio Gil thinks that technology is flipping the equation on future cities, and that rural may soon become the new urban. Full bio
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of the world's population lives in cities.
人口住在城市裡。
started in the late 1700s
始於 1700 年代末期,
will live in cities
the World Health Organization,
for the increased density,
增加的人口密度,
like inequality, congestion, crime
城市目前面臨的問題,
and city developers
denser, bigger cities.
規模更大的城市。
reaching the end of its cycle,
已經達到它循環週期的盡頭了,
moving back to the countryside.
"But what about the trend?"
is to live in a farm and have cattle,
the urbanization process.
can also bring the end of this cycle.
for most of my career.
with 3D printers and smart glasses,
3D 列印機,和智能眼鏡,
but also prototypes.
還包括樣板原型。
that will radically change
to enjoy the benefits of city life
with a lower crime rate
people moved to the cities
you could have in a city,
are starting to realize
and being in the office
by Global Workplace Analytics,
would like to work from home.
願意在家工作。
for a company to even have an office?
得要花多少錢嗎?
even 50 percent of the time,
would exceed 500 billion dollars,
by 54 million tons.
溫室氣體排放,
off the streets for a whole year.
一千萬汽車的排放量。
would want to telework,
makes the experience isolating.
新興的科技而改變:
environment everywhere with you.
帶到每個地點,
a pair of smart glasses,
and your spreadsheets
have become very common these days,
on a flat screen,
平面螢幕上的小小臉孔,
even know who is talking.
way better than static videocalls:
靜態視訊通話更好的東西:
但是離完美還遠得很。
communication is nonverbal?
give you any of that.
in a nice hologram
用個好的全息投影包裝起來,
and moves like a person.
and that will feel so real,
它和現實世界有任何差別。
why people move to cities?
另一個原因是什麼呢?
comScore 的一份研究,
of their retail purchases online,
at two trillion dollars.
by the end of 2017,
可望達到 2.38 兆美元,
eMarketer。
to a shopping mall is easy.
and take it home themselves.
having a birthday party for 20 people
來參加生日派對,
in the countryside,
between one address and the next one.
開長距離到下一個地址,
deliveries of all.
back and forth from the truck as it moves.
由無人機來回送貨。
for delivery is reduced,
in the countryside.
a drone pod in the yard.
is not a problem,
to buy things anymore.
why people move to cities?
第三個原因是什麼?
in the city for that these days.
得要待在城市裡。
they chat, gossip and flirt
active social media users in the world.
活躍的社交媒體用戶。
like we are connected
some real human contact.
真正人與人之間的交流的。
with its population density,
service companies will thrive.
workers from the cities
替代工作而遷居。
and waste recycling utilities,
垃圾廢水回收再利用的設備,
and using it to also power the family car.
用來給自家的汽車充電。
as being more energy-efficient,
被視為更有效地使用能源,
can be eco too.
of all the advantages of country living.
we packed our stuff,
we bought a house with a garden
singing in the morning.
not really the countryside yet.
to have a good spot for drones to land.
like I'm trying to convince somebody
the same benefits the city has.
和城市有同樣的好處。
recover a better flow and balance.
有助於城市的管理和平衡。
you have some thinking to do.
you need to live in the city?
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Julio Gil - Logistics expertUPS's Julio Gil thinks that technology is flipping the equation on future cities, and that rural may soon become the new urban.
Why you should listen
Julio Gil is an Industrial Engineering Manager in the Innovation and Advanced Technology Group at UPS Corporate. Gil has spent 15 years driving innovation and logistics improvements at UPS. He is always looking for the next great disruptive technology. As an engineering manager, he has pioneered new technologies for drones, 3D printing, the Internet of Things and wearables. As an inventor, he has developed four patents for drone technology and one for augmented reality applications for sorting processes. Gil holds a master's in law from the University of Alcalá de Henares in Spain.
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