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Welcome to Day 1423 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.This is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomSmart Cities \u2013 Ask GrampsWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.\xa0Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.\xa0Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. Today is Day 1423 of our Trek, and our focus on Fridays is the future technological and societal advances, so we call it Futuristic Fridays.\xa0My personality is one that has always been very future-oriented.\xa0Since my childhood, I have yearned for the exploration and discovery of new technologies and advancements for the future.\xa0I grew up with the original Star Trek series, and even today, while I am on my 64th revolution around the sun, I still dream of traveling in space. Each week we will explore rapidly converging technologies and advancements, which will radically change our lives.\xa0At times, the topics may sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but each area that we explore is already well on its way of becoming a reality over the next couple of decades.\xa0\xa0To keep with our theme of \u201cAsk Gramps,\u201d I will put our weekly topics in the form of a question to get us on track.\xa0So this week\u2019s question is:\xa0Hey Gramps, what will the cities of the future be like?\xa0


Smart CitiesLast week on Futuristic Friday, we explored High-Speed Global Connectivity, which is the delivery method for so many of the technological advances we will investigate.\xa0With the global pandemic still impacting the world, and when unrest seems to be nearly everywhere, you must understand that none of these issues will be long-lasting in the grand scheme of the world. Our world is in a disruptive mode, which will speed up the exponential technology that is changing our world today. I am using some of the information mentioned in Peter Diamandis\u2019s blogs and book \u201cThe Future is Faster Than You Think.\u201d, as a starting point.


We will do a deeper dive into some technologies, such as transportation separately.\xa0This week we will focus on the cities themselves.\xa0Each week alone, an estimated 1.3 million people move into cities, driving urbanization on an unstoppable scale.\xa0Advancement may slow somewhat due to the pandemic, but not long term.


By 2040, about two-thirds of the world\u2019s population will be concentrated in urban centers. Over the decades ahead, 90 percent of this urban population growth is predicted to flourish across Asia and Africa. As discussed last week, many of these areas are just starting to adopt high-speed global connectivity. Already, 1,000 smart city pilots are under construction or in their final urban planning stages across the globe, driving forward countless visions of the future.


As data becomes the gold or currency of the 21st century, centralized databases and hyper-connected infrastructures will enable everything from sentient cities that respond to data inputs in real-time, to smart public services that revolutionize modern governance.\xa0I currently work for a company that is providing integral pieces of the software that will drive this revolution.


Connecting countless industries such as real estate, energy, sensors and networks, transportation, among others \u2014 tomorrow\u2019s cities pose no end of creative possibilities and stand to transform the human experience completely.


Today\u2019s podcast is a little longer since we\u2019ll be taking a high-level tour of today\u2019s cutting-edge urban enterprises involved in these three areas:


Hyperconnected urban ecosystems that\xa0respond to your data


Smart infrastructure and construction


Self-charging green cities


Let\u2019s dive in!


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