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Machine Learning Doesn’t Dehumanise Construction…It just makes it better.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen knew exactly what they were doing in 1974: way ahead of their curve, they realised global computing companies, and IBM in particular (Big Blue), was increasingly obsessed with Hardware. Because Bill and Paul had learned from their pre-college work on the Traf-O-Data project (analysing flow data at traffic lights), that…
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What About the Workers?…Millennial Construction is still People Powered
We’ve talked a lot recently about the social and economic significance of global construction technologies, particularly about the crucial dynamic between stuck in the mud, dinosaur construction (which doesn’t work), and new wave modular systems (which do). But, to adopt a clarion call from the dimly lit, black-and-white days of the nineteen seventies: what about the…
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It’s About Time…We can’t wait for Enterprise, and Enterprise won’t wait.
Time is Money, and Money is Time: so if, like me, you’ve ever been involved in starting up a new business, you’ll know just how frustrating the early days of any enterprise can be. Finding the right office space for a start and then navigating your way painfully through the Delphic mysteries of a commercial…
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Moving Away from End Point Construction…Why 3D Volumetrics seeing off the Dinosaurs
Suppose I want to buy a new watch, tired as I am of fumbling around in my pockets to check the time on my iPhone: I’m certainly not expecting a team of skilled watchmakers to turn up at my house, hunker down in the study, and begin crafting an intricate mechanism of cogs and springs,…
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Post-COVID property markets sustainable growth beats short-term blips every time
Most of the economic consequences of COVID were entirely predictable: as progressive lockdown restrictions tightened their grip on domestic and international travel, air carriers suffered a catastrophic slump in revenues; GDP in virtually every economy sank or slowed as workers were forced to stay at home, and interest rates fell close to zero to sustain…