Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in f….

We are surrounded by pictures; we have an abundance of theories about them, but it doesn't seem to do us any good. Knowing what pictures are doing, u….

There is no magical solution because urban traffic congestion arises from the fact that a lot of people want to be in the same place at the same time….

Everybody thinks an automobile needs an engine. Well, an automobile doesn't necessarily need an engine. What we do is shift electric motors into the ….

Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally rethinkin….

We [MIT Smart Cities research group] try to identify the fundamental underlying design assumptions that everybody takes as a sort of given and unchal….

That's not a utopian vision. It is a set of ideas that we think are important to discuss. Those ideas largely have to do with sustainability of citie….

...people have always known, at least since Moses denounced the Golden Calf, that images were dangerous, that they can captivate the onlooker and ste….

American cities are kind of difficult contexts to work in. They are politically complex. There are a lot of different interest groups. It takes immen….

The essential characteristic of digital information is that it can be manipulated easily and very rapidly by computer... Computational tools for tran….

The relation of photography and language is a principal site of struggle for value and power in contemporary representations of reality; it is the pl….

Imagine a kind of system where you have lightweight electric vehicles relatively small battery capacity, and then picking up charge wherever they par….

Photography is and is not a language; language also is and is not a photography..

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety….

Exile is a series of photographs without texts..

An interlude of false innocence has passed. Today, as we enter the post-photographic era, we must face once again the ineradicable fragility of our o….