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A Global Push for More ‘15-Minute Cities’
bloomberg.com
Peter Kaufman
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“Accelerationism” Is an Overdue Corrective to Years of Gloom and Doom in Silicon Valley.
Nadia Asparouhovathenewatlantis.com
Ivan Illich, the multinational intellectual who in 1973 wrote the smartest thing that I have yet to read about transportation: “Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few.”
Jeff Speck • Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time
Austin Vernon • Energy Superabundance: How Cheap, Abundant Energy Will Shape Our Future - The CGO
The technological and political context has changed in important ways too. Globalization has had destabilizing effects, ranging from climate change to the spread of technology into far more hands than ever before, including a…
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Richard Haass • The World
Platform Growth is Hard: Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Carpooling Platform in Singapore
History shows that companies nearly always choose to protect their established revenue streams.* If the kind of revolution that Brin envisions is to unfold, it may have to arise outside the automotive industry. And, of course, Brin may be in exactly the right place to make that happen.