Eco-friendly "Super Trees" in Singapore collect rain water, absorb heat and — like most trees — provide shade.
Posted on 01/05/2013 7:53:42 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Despite the global economic slowdown, Asia's cities are continuing to widen the perceived technological gap between its American counterparts.
The juxtaposition is visible from the moment your feet leave the plane. Many of the airports in Asia's biggest cities are stunning, engineering marvels — and make those in the U.S. seem outdated.
Has America's early leadership in technology and engineering evaporated? Or is it hidden at first glance?
1) The Shanghai Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) floats on magnets and is the world's fastest commercially operated train, traveling at speeds up to 268 mph.
2) Seoul's local government has launched a $44 million plan to blanket the city with free Wi-fi.
3) Some Japanese street signs have heat maps to relay congestion information to drivers and directly influence traffic patterns
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Devious.
Get everyone using the city's Wi-Fi. Then when the internet is being used to coordinate protests...pull the plug.
Our cities ARE Third World: Tribes of uneducated, morally bankrupt primitives warring for scare resources in economically depressed, lawless, crumbling, hell-holes. These aren’t melting pots, they’re septic tanks.
No apologies, but lots of condolences to anyone here that actually resides in one.
They’ll be able to pull the plug even if you’re paying for it.
RE: Our cities ARE Third World: Tribes of uneducated, morally bankrupt primitives warring for scare resources in economically depressed, lawless, crumbling, hell-holes.
C’mon, not every city in the USA are as bad as Detroit.
Most of the medical care is very cheap, state of the art with little or no waiting.
Someone forgot to tell them that the government should be involved!
Yeah, but Philadelphia, Cleveland, East Saint Louis, Baltimore and another dozen or so I could name without breaking a sweat, come close.
I would rather live in a rural-ish place where things stay pretty much the same, as they do where I live. Also happy to live in a place where you don’t have to collect rainwater to drink, like in Singapore.
Many US airports are run by corrupt municipalities, serviced by union contracts which pay kickbacks to the overseers.
This is a surprise?
New Orleans, Much of Houston or most any inner city area. They don’t even bother to investigate crimes in these areas. Black on black, latino on latino, asian on asian etc. and then cross pollination and then there is the white trash.
The sales tax rate in almost all states has TRIPLED since I was a kid. That is REAL dollars increase in taxes collected not just inflation. What do we get for it? Not very much. Streets of patches on top of patches, crumbling sewers and water lines. Every time there is a strain they threaten to cut police and fire protection but the big fat cats keep on trucking.
This is a corrupt and crumbling nation about to enter third world status if it is not there already in many places. 1/3 to 1/2 of the population are ignorant slovenly population of dishonorable thieves and parasites only interested in the next iSomething.
And even they look tame compared to the thieves and parasitic politicians which they elect.
The reason being they are homogeneous, meaning of the same or similar nature or kind.They are all virtually one race.
New York City is still the cultural center of the world.
Where are the MILLIONS of 3rd world muslims flooding into Japan and S. Korea?
These and others would go there if they could, but guess what? Both these countries actually have borders that they can control.
How are the borders of the UK any less defensible?
Imagine when the hacker across the street gets control of that.
I work in Newark. I literally believe I would be safer in Uganda
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