New York City is hiring a futurist to forecast innovation
“New York City is getting serious about prepping its five boroughs for a high-tech future. The city announced on Thursday a program called NYCx to help the city better prepare for and shape the future.
NYCx will focus on coming innovations such as 5G connectivity, self-driving cars or artificial intelligence, and how they can make the city equitable and sustainable. NYCx will do this through moonshot challenges, which encourage entrepreneurs to tackle the city’s biggest problems. Anyone can apply.
In an unlikely move for a city, New York is also hiring a senior futurist to gather insights on possible cultural, economic and environmental changes ahead. Futurists say that good forecasting can save cities billion of dollars by making prescient policies and decisions that can have an impact for 40 or 50 years…”
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