Tag: 2024
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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…