April 30, 2018 | permalink
The folks at Procurious — the social network for procurment executives, AKA the people who run the world, or at least sign contracts for it — asked me to speak about engineering serendipity at their Big Ideas Summit in London last week. Above is a two-minute preview of my talk, which covered unknown knowns, WeWork’s staggering 220,000 members, eavesdropping over pints in the alleys of London, and weaponized Twitter bots. You had to be there.
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Greg Lindsay is a journalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a senior fellow at NewCities and the director of strategy of its offshoot LA CoMotion — an annual urban mobility festival in the Arts District of Los Angeles. He is also a non-resident senior fellow of The Atlantic Council’s Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative, a visiting scholar at New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy & Management, a contributing writer for Fast Company and co-author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.
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