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Infrastructure and the Future: Assessing the Architect's Role

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Infrastructure and the Future

grid and our communications grid. I really believe that transportation is something that can start to be even more decentralized. There’s a big opportunity—not necessarily in pushing more public transportation or pushing the better vehicle, but in pushing the better service model for transportation and providing efficient vehicles for people when they need them. Tom Keane When I started off, I talked about four things, including transportation, water, and sewer. I talked about communications and energy as if they were all distinct but, arguably, communications is an overlay to all of them now. Communications can make everything else significantly more efficient, definitely in terms of feedback and information, which is really what we’re talking about.

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