The world changes; it always has, with or without human intervention. The novelty in recent years lies in the frequency, intensity, and those so-called leaps – or disruptive changes – that transform the socio-economic fabric at an ever-increasing pace. Sometimes these are caused by revolutionary technologies; at other times, they are the result of gradual maturation that does not attract public opinion's attention until they become too significant to go unnoticed. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is likely one of these latter cases. Ignored for several decades, it has now matured the necessary potential to manifest significant and growing impacts on human communities in the years to come.

In the vibrant heart of the metropolises of the next decade, an unprecedented urban revolution awaits us, promising to redefine the way we live, work, and interact with the space around us. Driven by an increasing fusion of advanced technology and sustainable vision, urban centers are about to transform into living laboratories of innovation and integration. Here is how urban life might change, following six outlined hypotheses for the metropolises of tomorrow.

At a quick and superficial reading, statistics and culture may seem like two separate realities that only interact under close supervision. To simplify, the cultured individual tends to stigmatize the false certainties hidden behind numbers, while the statistician perhaps looks with barely concealed annoyance at that galaxy of activities that escape easily definable metrics.