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Luis Bettencourt on The Science of Cities

COMPLEXITY

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The City as a Social Reactor

i'm inspired by at least daring to try to ask questions that can take us to ideas that have that kind of scope. You can start locally and end up having an idea that, you know, traverses time ond place. And how simple ideas like this, or howf what happens when you travel in a beam of light, these ideas we start playing with tem can take you all the way to what stuff is made out of,. Like mary galmon here at the institute work on and changed our perspective on or the very begin or the very end of the universe.

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