Category Archives: opencities

And if that doesn’t do it, WiMax is coming

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Thomas Purves

From Intel’s developer forum today: “Intel is developing a Wimax enabled CPU [chipset?] called Echo Creek in the middle of next year, with a number of vendors committing to producing notebooks that use the chip. By 2012, over a billion … Continue reading →

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The Flavour of Cities – My deck from OpenCities

Posted on June 27, 2007 by Thomas Purves

UPDATE: oh and my speaker notes are here on the slideshare page which might explain things a *little* more clearly. A great commentary by Edward on the discussion that followed (thanks!): “At the final session, insulated by a Creemore, it … Continue reading →

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Open thoughts for open cities

Posted on June 22, 2007 by Thomas Purves

..Because gifted children are able to consider the possibilities of how things might be, they tend to be idealists. However, they are simultaneously able to see that the world is falling short of how it might be. Because they are … Continue reading →

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