NEWS
While attending SXSW, Greg helped lead a pair of “threatcasting” workshops on the intersection of climate disasters and misinformation, inspired by the events of 2024’s Hurricane Helene. The first, attended by festival participants, sketched the contours of future catastrophes and the victims caught up in them. The second, hosted by the United States Conference of Mayors, created a playbook for dampening misinformation while accelerating response times. The report encompassing both is available below.
Download the report
Greg flew to Austin for South by Southwest, where he hosted sessions at the Fast Company Grill for Lumen, Williams, and Wise (above); and led a fireside chat at Midwest House with Michigan’s chief growth officer Hilary Doe on retaining and attracting talent to the Great Lakes State. Videos and recaps of each session are linked to below.
Watch Lumen – Watch Wise – Watch Williams
In conjunction with The Augmented City, his landmark report for the Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute on the promise and perils of AI and augmented reality at urban scale, Greg commissioned the award-winning author Madeline Ashby to write a collection of short stories illustrating the report’s findings.
Those stories have been collected as an audiobook—alternately read aloud by Madeline and Greg—and published on YouTube, with illustrations by Nana Rausch. For best results, listen while perusing the report.
Download the report – Listen to the stories
REPORT
THE AUGMENTED CITY
12.2024
THE AUGMENTED CITY
12.2024
“What is the next disruptive technology to reshape the public realm, and how can cities better anticipate its effects upon arrival?” asks Greg’s groundbreaking report on the implications of augmented reality at urban scale, The Augmented City. Comprising two years of research and foresight, this timely call to action lands just as Google rejoins Apple and Meta in the race to overlay their proprietary technologies on reality itself.
Read the report, listen to podcasts with No BS Bureaucracy’s Mark Wheeler and Mike Sarasti or The New Urban Order’s Diana Lind, watch a Webinar with inCitu’s Nick Kaufmann, or listen to Madeline Ashby’s accompanying stories.
In his essay “Drones, Meals, and Automobiles,” Greg explores the delivery- and automation-driven fusion of retail and industrial real estate in the latest edition of the Urban Land Institute’s and PwC’s Emerging Trends in Real Estate. He’ll dig deeper into these trends in his workshop and keynote for ULI New Mexico in January 2025. Get in touch if you’d like him to do the same for your organization.
Read the essay – Download the report
GREG’S
WORK ARCHIVE
GREG LINDSAY
GREG
ABOUT
Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker.
He is a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, Arizona State University’s Threatcasting Lab, and the Atlantic Council’s GeoStrategy Initiative. He was the founding chief communications officer of AlphaGeo where he remains a senior advisor. Most recently, he was a 2022–2023 urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he explored the implications of AI and augmented reality at urban scale.
His past speaking engagements and events include the Venice Architecture Biennale, Aspen Ideas Festival, Civic I/O summit at SXSW, the Dubai Business Forum, the World Economic Forum, and La Conférence de Montréal, among many others.
SPEAKING TOPICS
The way we’ll live next in a New/Post/Never-Normal world.
Looking for a speaker who can help you and your organization make sense of the New/Post/Never-Normal? Greg Lindsay regularly speaks to some of the world’s most innovative organizations about the future of cities, climate, work, AI, and the future of the future itself. Below is a short list of his speaking topics, and here are the details. If any pique your interest, email him. After all, there’s no time to think about the future like the present.
Read more about topics.
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Shortlist
THE WAY WE’LL LIVE NEXT
The built world implications of our
never-normal landscape.
AUTONOMOUS EVERYTHING
AI, the future, and what we
can do about it.
WHERE WILL YOU LIVE IN 2050?
Why and where a warming
world may still have shelter for us.
HOW TO WORK, TOGETHER
New forms of collaboration
in a world in which corporate silos
have cracked wide open.
WHERE THE ROBOT MEETS
THE ROAD
A future of things that drive and fly
and think for themselves.
ENGINEERING SERENDIPITY
How do we discover unknown
knowns — the things and people we
don’t know we know?
The built world implications of our
never-normal landscape.
AUTONOMOUS EVERYTHING
AI, the future, and what we
can do about it.
WHERE WILL YOU LIVE IN 2050?
Why and where a warming
world may still have shelter for us.
HOW TO WORK, TOGETHER
New forms of collaboration
in a world in which corporate silos
have cracked wide open.
WHERE THE ROBOT MEETS
THE ROAD
A future of things that drive and fly
and think for themselves.
ENGINEERING SERENDIPITY
How do we discover unknown
knowns — the things and people we
don’t know we know?
GREG’S
SPEAKING TOPICS