Cities Of The Future Will Thrive
On Information
Imagine knowing exactly what types of people are walking down a certain street on any given day. Do most of those people visit the coffee shop or the weed shop? Are they millennials or boomers? Do they shop at Nordstrom's or are they more Endless Knot kind of people?
Information like that could drive decisions on where to place retail stores, restaurants and even office space and multifamily housing.
The more a business knows about the habits of passers-by, the better it can be positioned to be where the buyers already exist.
That is just one of the amazing uses of data mining that is becoming available in “smart cities”…
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