Frank Schipper: Music 2.0: Fast Operas and Virtual Choirs
Music today is deeply affected by infrastructures. Retailers and the music industry feel the heat of new competitors offering free (and paid) listening, such as Grooveshark, Jango, Pandora, Spotify, or Youtube.
Today's road transport is approaching its maximum capacity. Growing environmental concerns and traffic congestion force the transport sector to look elsewhere for expansion. Inland shipping is a viable alternative. It is cheaper, more environmentally friendly, and less prone to congestion. However, the current system of inland shipping could benefit from a fundamental revision. more
All private homes in The Netherlands are connected to public networks. This was not always the case. At some point, these connections became standard or even compulsory. Will this happen to broadband as well? more
Exploring and exhibiting a variety of complex adaptive systems approaches to infrastructure, Next Generation Infrastructures and the UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium are bringing together leading scientists, engineers and economists from their programmes to discuss the state-of-the-art in modelling change and adaptation in infrastructure systems. more
Igor Nikolic, Zofia Lukszo and Koen van Dam from the section Energy en Industry from the faculty Technology, Policy and Management at TU Delft recently publiced the book Agent-Based Modelling of Socio-Technical Systems. more