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Recent articles about the Built Environment Transition™
The world is facing an unprecedented combination of structural changes that will fundamentally alter the physical environment around us. A considerable opportunity for invention and venture creation emerges from mega-trends driving this Built Environment Transition™ (BET).
US UNIVERSITIES ARE FILLING A REGIONAL INNOVATION GAP
MIT Management
May, 2025
An MIT study finds U.S. universities drive regional innovation, yielding companies and patents. They’re key to “attracting inventors into their regions, training them at the forefront of science, and then contributing to the economy,” Professor Fiona Murray says.
AMAZON PLANS TO REPLACE 600,000 JOBS WITH ROBOTS
New York Times
Oct, 2025
Executives told Amazon’s board last year that they hoped robotic automation would allow the company to continue to avoid adding to its U.S. work force in the coming years, even though they expect to sell twice as many products by 2033.
AlphaGeo Insights
Feb, 2025
Significant populations shifts are expected, with mass flights to safety: By 2055, about 6.5 million people will leave high-risk flood zones, while safer areas will gain an additional 50 million residents.
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Governing Magazine
Fall, 2025
Trillions of dollars of wealth, much of it in homes and other property, will be moving from baby boomers to millennials. Local governments should begin preparing for dealing with that generation’s values.
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MANUFACTURING MOMENTUM - PART 3
NEWMARK
Aug, 2024
A snapshot of initial investments totaling a minimum of $100 million since 2020 reveals approximately $400 billion in advanced manufacturing investments pledged, 210,000+ new jobs and a minimum of 250 million square feet of new industrial projects – all to come between now and 2030.
Ai IS MORE LIKELY TO AUGMENT NOT REPLACE
HUMAN WORKERS
MIT Sloan
Mar 17, 2025 DEC. 29, 2022
“There tends to be a prevailing narrative that robots are coming for jobs,” said Rigobon. “We think it’s important to ask different questions — looking more at human capabilities than AI capabilities and shifting toward what technology can give us rather than what it might take away.”
$800M STUDIO ON HOLD AFTER SEEING OPENAI'S SORA
The Hollywood Reporter
Fed 22, 2024
Tyler Perry, the actor, filmmaker and studio owner, is raising the alarm about the impact of the tech, saying, "I feel like everybody in the industry is running a hundred miles an hour to try and catch up, to try and put in guardrails."
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Ai COULD ACTUALLY HELP REBUILD THE MIDDLE CLASS
NOEMA
Feb 12, 2024
The future of work, for many of us, is imperiled. A recent Gallup poll found that 75% of U.S. adults believe AI will lead to fewer jobs. But this fear is misplaced.The industrialized world is awash in jobs, and it’s going to stay that way..