The City of Waterloo was recently awarded the distinction of being the most intelligent community in the world. A nonprofit origanization that focuses on economic development, the Intelligent Community Forum, bestowed Waterloo with the 2007 Intelligent Community Award.
Waterloo undoubtedly helped their cause by being home to UW, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Institute for Quantum Computing, Research and Technology Park and numerous high-tech companies.
It’s only fair to state that these institutions and companies are not intelligent on their own. The human talent is what makes the community successful. Taking that into account, I live in Kitchener but I work in Waterloo – does that make me at least a little bit intelligent by proxy? 🙂
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K-Dub Rocks!
I don’t have a problem with this dubious distinction of “most intelligent community in the world,” but I’m not sure what it really means.
And since we didn’t make it into the 2008 short list, are we back to being, dare I say, unintelligent?
(http://www.intelligentcommunity.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=270)
I hope the funds planned for the monument to be built to commemorate the award are used in a more worthy cause. I think the website is enough for bragging rights: http://www.intelligentwaterloo.com/en/.