BOSTON – Can Boston compete with New York and Los Angeles artistically? Statistics indicate the competition so far hasn't favored the Bay State capital, as just 3 percent of working artists in America can be found in Massachusetts, compared with 11 percent in New York and 28 percent in California, according to educationnews.org.
While the raw numbers suggest that Boston lags far behind New York City and Los Angeles as a center for the arts. But according to Richard Florida, author of "Rise of the Creative Class," greater Boston contains some of the nation's highest proportions of creative professionals. Florida argues that the presence of artists will play a key role in urban economic development in the 21st century.
BOSTON – While Silicon Valley is almost synonymous with anything tech-related, Greater Boston is carving out a niche for itself in tech innovations for the cars of the future. Several large projects and companies working on making self-driving cars a thing of the present call Beantown home. And Woburn-based Terrafugia is taking flying cars out of the pages of science fiction and into reality.
Autonomous vehicles (or self-driving cars), while technologically feasible at this time, still leave a lot of questions unanswered. For example, how does an autonomous vehicle know when to brake for a pedestrian who steps into the street?
