Julio Gil: Future tech will give you the benefits of city life anywhere
フリオ・ヒル: 未来の技術で、どこでもシティライフの恩恵を
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.
都市で暮らしています
started in the late 1700s
will live in cities
都市で暮らすだろうということです
the World Health Organization,
高まる人口密度に備えなければ
for the increased density,
like inequality, congestion, crime
悪化する一方だと
and city developers
都市開発業者たちは
大きな都市の設計に
denser, bigger cities.
reaching the end of its cycle,
終りかけていると思っています
moving back to the countryside.
戻り始めることになるでしょう
"But what about the trend?"
思うかもしれません
is to live in a farm and have cattle,
農場に住み 牛を飼うこと
the urbanization process.
技術革新がきっかけです
can also bring the end of this cycle.
技術によって終わると思います
for most of my career.
イノベーションに取り組んできました
with 3D printers and smart glasses,
スマートグラスを扱えます
but also prototypes.
試作品も扱えます
that will radically change
to enjoy the benefits of city life
都市生活の恩恵を
with a lower crime rate
犯罪率が低く
people moved to the cities
好きだからではありません
you could have in a city,
キャリアの機会があるといいますが
are starting to realize
and being in the office
オフィスにいることは
by Global Workplace Analytics,
Analyticsの調査によると
would like to work from home.
在宅勤務を希望しています
for a company to even have an office?
いくら掛かるかご存知ですか?
年間1万1千ドル掛かります
even 50 percent of the time,
would exceed 500 billion dollars,
費用削減になります
by 54 million tons.
5400万トン削減できます
off the streets for a whole year.
相当します
would want to telework,
在宅勤務を望んでいるとはいえ
makes the experience isolating.
それは孤独なものであり
テレプレゼンスロボットです
environment everywhere with you.
持ち出すことが出来ます
a pair of smart glasses,
スマートグラスだけです
and your spreadsheets
メールと表計算ソフトを
have become very common these days,
当たり前になりました
on a flat screen,
小さな顔を見ても
even know who is talking.
わからない時があります
way better than static videocalls:
ずっとましなものがあります
動き回ることもできます
完璧にはほど遠いです
communication is nonverbal?
非言語で行われます
give you any of that.
in a nice hologram
綺麗なホログラムを
and moves like a person.
and that will feel so real,
why people move to cities?
2つ目の理由は何でしたか?
ネットで買い物をした人は
of their retail purchases online,
ネット上でしていました
at two trillion dollars.
by the end of 2017,
2017年の終わりまでに
to a shopping mall is easy.
and take it home themselves.
自分たちで家に持って帰ってくれます
having a birthday party for 20 people
20人の友達を呼ぶことと ―
in the countryside,
between one address and the next one.
何マイルも走らなければならないこともあり
deliveries of all.
back and forth from the truck as it moves.
あちこち飛び回ります
for delivery is reduced,
配達の平均コストは削減されます
in the countryside.
手頃になるんです
a drone pod in the yard.
ポッドがあるでしょう
is not a problem,
問題でなくなれば
to buy things anymore.
都市にいる必要はないのです
why people move to cities?
3つ目の理由はなんでしょう?
in the city for that these days.
必要があるかもしれません
they chat, gossip and flirt
噂話をしたり ナンパしたりを―
active social media users in the world.
世界にいます
like we are connected
some real human contact.
with its population density,
service companies will thrive.
サービス会社が栄えます
workers from the cities
田舎で見つけることでしょう
and waste recycling utilities,
廃棄物リサイクル設備もあります
and using it to also power the family car.
それは自家用車の動力にもなります
as being more energy-efficient,
思われてきました
can be eco too.
エコなのです
of all the advantages of country living.
考えているでしょう
we packed our stuff,
we bought a house with a garden
singing in the morning.
not really the countryside yet.
小さな村に住んでいます
to have a good spot for drones to land.
忘れません
like I'm trying to convince somebody
聞こえるかもしれませんが
the same benefits the city has.
皆 田舎に移るだろうと
人口密度は下がり
recover a better flow and balance.
you have some thinking to do.
何か考える必要があると思います
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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