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Alysha Helmrich in Infrastructure in the Anthropocene

Jul 14, 2021

Centralization and decentralization to enhance infrastructure resilience

Brad Allenby in Infrastructure in the Anthropocene

Sep 14, 2021

The Emerging Cognitive Ecosystem

Brad Allenby

Unless you live under a rock somewhere, you know we’re living in a period of dramatic change. Not just technology, but political, social, economic, institutional, geopolitical and cultural systems are in turmoil. More fundamentally, we are just beginning…

Brad Allenby in Infrastructure in the Anthropocene

Jun 28, 2021

Solving Problems Rationally in an Irrational World

Engineering is in many ways structured, usually quantitative, problem solving. Whether it is writing a software module that must integrate smoothly with existing legacy…

Madison Horgan in Infrastructure in the Anthropocene

Jan 24, 2023

To Proxy or Not to Proxy?

Research worships rationality. Scientists routinely use inductive reasoning to discover truths about the world…

Noam Rosenthal in Infrastructure in the Anthropocene

Mar 2, 2022

Ingenuity as Infrastructure: Making Bus Systems Resilient to Heat

Reassigning buses to reduce wait…

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Infrastructure in the Anthropocene

At the dawn of the Anthropocene, the systems that deliver basic and critical services for human well being and economic development are poised to be shocked. Transitioning infrastructure — assets, governance, and education — is paramount to ensure that needs are met.

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