The Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security has published its annual “Global Foresight 2025” report crowd­sourcing the forecasts of more than 350 foresight pro­fes­sio­nals. Greg co-authored three scenarios set in 2035: “The Reluc­tant Inter­national Order;” “China Ascen­dant,” and “Climate of Fear.” Each represents the challenges the world faces as Ameri­can leader­ship recedes and climate catastrophes intensify.

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The Lincoln Institute’s Rob Walker asked Greg to contribute the after­word to his new book City Tech: 20 Apps, Ideas, and Inno­va­tors Changing the Urban Landscape.  Greg’s distillation of the themes and lessons highlighted in the book ends with a call to action:

“If the last decade of urban tech has been a dress rehearsal, then the curtain is now rising on the most momentous decade of change most cities have ever had to face. ‘Technology is the answer, but what was the question?’ the British architect Cedric Price famously asked. Finally it is our turn to formulate what we demand from our tech­no­lo­gies, versus the other way around.”

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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.

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“What are the expectations for AI in 2025? How do C-suite leaders employ practical strategies for inte­gra­ting AI into existing workflows without im­pair­ing operations? And how do organiza­tions iden­ti­fy genuine opportunities (and avoid com­mon pitfalls) amid the growing AI hype?

On behalf of Fast Company, Greg led a dis­cus­sion featuring Matt Minetola, CIO of Elastic, Rick Rioboli, CTO of Comcast Connec­­ti­vity and Platform, and Cynthia Stoddard, CIO of Adobe, to learn about what’s next from AI and how to gain a competitive edge in a time of rapid trans­for­mation.

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“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.

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In this exclusive interview with the London Speaker Bureau, Greg discusses the future of cities in an era of AI and climate change, and what this means for both organizations—which face enor­mous challen­ges and oppor­tu­nities posed by rapidly-evolving AI—and people, who are finding it easier to make friends with AIs than in real life. Get in touch if you’d like to have him speak to your organization.

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Given the span of human history, the city is a relatively recent invention, about 6,000 years old. By 2050, about 70 per cent of the world's populations will be living in cities. Yet climate crisis and rising sea levels, along with wildfires, mass migrations and geo­political volatility bra­cket the viability of the city as we know it. So what does the city of the future look like? CBC IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed spoke with Greg and two additional experts on the future of the city at the Provocation Ideas Festival in Stratford, Ontario, which was later broadcast on the CBC and re-broadcast on Maine NPR.

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Greg joins ADAPT hosts Jessica Mederson and Monika Serrano to explore how climate change is reshaping America's eco­nomic geo­gra­phy and migration patterns. They discuss why investors follow popu­la­tion flows rather than climate risk data, examine the cultural barriers to northern migration, challenge conventional wisdom about “climate havens,” and highlight how policy, not natural forces, have shaped where Americans live and work. Most pro­vo­catively, they explore how the stability of our climate has underpinned our entire global economy—and what happens as that stability erodes.

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Greg spoke at Tulsa Remote’s “Plugged­ In,” a summit dedi­cated to remote work and its ability to revitalize people and com­mu­­nities. He revisited the city-­led “Depart­ment of Hospi­ta­lity” proposal he deve­lo­ped with Lev Kushner. If you’re a mayor inter­ested in this idea, get in touch.

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