2020 Visionaries Part IV: Ryan Chin and Jason Clark

Remaking the Car, Remaking the City

Ryan C. C. Chin of the MIT Media lab discusses MIT's much-remarked CityCar concept. The car itself presents a radical—and welcome—break from driver-vehicle interaction to which we're accustomed, but the real genius of is how it integrates into a larger organism of city life. In the Media Lab's Smart Cities model, the car of the future is one component in a broader and more sane transportation system reflecting the way people actually interact with the urban environment, and with one another.

Also, young computer scientist Jason Clark will share his company's vision for re-starting the tech startup. He and his allies at Syntiant say companies can be philanthropic and make money at the same time; and they're proposing a bold new business model to do exactly that.

Illustration by William Lark / MIT Media Lab