Amory Lovins' team is designing cars like computers on wheels. With lightweight carbon fiber construction and hydrogen fuel cells for power, RMI integrates digital technologies to improve performance and efficiency. Communities have become their own utilities, sharing and storing energy among users. Energy may even be bought and sold over the worldwide web. Over the past thirty years, Curitiba, Brazil has laid the groundwork, creating an integrated network of city services linked by a flexible low cost bus system.
Information sharing is the next step to maintaining efficiencies in a fast growing, modern city.
Now Curitiba relies on digital communications to make Lerner1s vision reality. Smart busses and intelligent traffic systems point the city in this new direction.