NEWS
INTERVIEW - FRONTERAS DESK - 04.2024
Mark Brodie interviews Greg Lindsay about California Forever, a new city that a group of tech billionaires and others are hoping to get residents in Northern California’s Solano County to approve.
As part of his report for Cornell Tech on the uses (and abuses) of generative AI in architecture, engineering, and construction, Greg and his Unfrozen podcast co-host Daniel Safarik cornered Thornton Tomasetti Chief Technology Officer Robert Otani to talk about his efforts to create a large language model based on the firm’s retiring metallurgy expert, “Mike.”
REPORT
CORNELL TECH
01.2024
CORNELL TECH
01.2024
As part of his urban tech fellowship at Cornell Tech, Greg Lindsay co-authored Future of Generative AI with Anthony Townsend, a report for the Jacobs Institute on how the architecture, engineering, and construction industries should approach generative AI.
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THOMSON REUTERS
01.2024
THOMSON REUTERS
01.2024
“Experts warn that authorities are not prepared for the challenges that will come when residents themselves harness the power of AR. They say this blending of digital and physical spaces will raise legal and ethical questions that have not yet been sufficiently considered. ‘Cities are not really prepared for this,’ said Greg Lindsay, an urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute in New York. ‘How do you prepare to regulate technologies that don’t exist or are still nascent?’”
— Carey L. Baron
For Thomson Reuters Foundation,
Baron reports on the pros
and cons of augmented reality
in American cities.
Read the report
PRESS
FAST COMPANY
11.2023
FAST COMPANY
11.2023
“LA County isn’t just about cars. It’s also ‘the epicenter of a mobility revolution that is making, unmaking, and remaking the way we all live and move,’ as author Greg Lindsay puts it in an essay featured in the book.”
— Elissaveta M. Brandon
For Fast Company, Brandon
reviews Renewing the Dreams,
a Rizzoli book edited
by architect James Saunders.
Buy the book
PANEL MODERATION
FAST COMPANY
11.2023
FAST COMPANY
11.2023
Booz Allen Hamilton posted the full video from “The Age of Principled AI,” an event and discussion in Washington D.C. on November 6th, 2023, that Greg moderated on behalf of Fast Company.
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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 Scowcroft Strategy Initiative. He was the founding chief communications officer of AlphaGeo and 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.
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.
More about topics
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SHORTLIST
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