February 01, 2011 | permalink
Hi there. No doubt you’re reading this because you saw my op-ed in the February 1st edition of The New York Times. Love it or hate it, I sincerely hope you’ll stick around long enough to learn a little more about why America needs to reinvest in aviation if it hopes to compete in a truly global era.
The full-length explanation is contained in my book, Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next (with John D. Kasarda), which explores how air travel has shaped the fates of cities and regions more than anyone ever thought possible. The book comes out a month from now, on March 1st. If you’d like to learn more about it, please read this excellent summary/review by Thomas P.M. Barnett, author of Great Powers and a contributing editor to Esquire. Or you can just skip straight to Amazon to pre-order it here (and yes, there’s a version for the Kindle).
If that’s not enough to convince you, please check out this interview about the book published in Surface magazine last year. Or just wait to hear me on tour – here’s a list of readings and events.
As for the arguments put forth in the op-ed, I wrote a piece about NextGen and its potential savings in terms of fuel and carbon emissions for Fast Company in May 2009. And to those who would argue that winning the future depends on cornering the market for high-speed rail rather than the air, think again. China, which has invested more heavily in HSR than anyone, is also making a bid to upset the Airbus-Boeing duopoly with a jumbo-jet company of its own – and has strong-armed General Electric into helping it. The most ambitious, most difficult, and most rewarding (in terms of exports) machine to build is an airliner, and China signals the ultimate aim of its ambitions by trying to corner that market as well.
But if you still think I’m crazy, you might be right. After all, there is that time I lived in airports for a month…
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Greg Lindsay is a generalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is a non-resident senior fellow of the Arizona State University Threatcasting Lab, a non-resident senior fellow of MIT’s Future Urban Collectives Lab, and a non-resident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Strategy Initiative. He was the founding chief communications officer of Climate Alpha and remains a senior advisor. Previously, he was an urban tech fellow at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute, where he explored the implications of AI and augmented reality at urban scale.
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