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? 🙂