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Director, MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory

Carlo Ratti is a civil engineer and architect who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory. He is a regular contributor of articles[…]

Carlo Ratti Qualifies How the Internet Creates Democracy

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