The Year for Smart Cities

Metro21 Executive Director Karen Lightman spoke with Emerging Tech Brew to discuss smart cities and her thoughts on their potential success in 2022 with the recently passed infrastructure bill.

“What we’re seeing now is that you can have connectivity, electrification, and autonomy. You don’t have to just pick one,” Karen Lightman, executive director of the Metro21 Smart Cities Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, told Emerging Tech Brew. “We can, with some catalyst investment money from the federal government, encourage the private sector to come in and jobs can be created. I really feel like 2022 is the year.”

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