The Quiet Revolution in How We Build
No announcement, no launch, no conference keynote. Over a decade, the way a building comes into existence has been remade by people who were mostly trying to avoid a lawsuit.
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No announcement, no launch, no conference keynote. Over a decade, the way a building comes into existence has been remade by people who were mostly trying to avoid a lawsuit.
Priya Raman on transmission, storage and the deeply unglamorous bottleneck between a working technology and a working system.
Daniel Reiss on the return of materials science — and the brutal timelines that make it so different from anything software has taught us.
Infrastructure is the only thing we build on a timescale longer than a career. Priya Raman on the engineers arguing for a return to the very long view.
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