NEWS
PODCAST
UNFROZEN
10.2025
UNFROZEN
10.2025
Greg and his “Unfrozen” podcast co-host Daniel Safarik began a new season this fall featuring
Listen to episodes
No. 104 – Make Gaza GREAT Again
No. 105 – The House of Dr. Koolhaas
No. 108 – NORTH
Greg returned to New York in September for the annual Fast Company Innovation Festival. Over three days, he hosted multiple sessions on AI with festival partners Williams, Hyland, and the Weather Company ranging from the technology’s unquenchable thirst for energy, the implications of agentic commerce, and the future of prediction. Links to recaps and video — along with a bonus podcast — are below.
Read/Watch the Hyland discussion
Read/Watch the Williams discussion
Listen to the Williams podcast
On August 14th, Greg joined filmmaker and developer Keiichi Matsuda and award-winning author Madeline Ashby for a virtual discussion on the uses and abuses of “science fiction prototyping” in creating the future. Hosted by Threatcasting.ai, they explored how stories offer plausible pathways beyond the present.
The conversation followed Greg’s participation in the Metaverse Standards Forum’s inaugural Ethics Summit on designing for urban XR. He also delivered the opening keynote at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s annual conference on digitalization in May, and was quoted in its magazine Land Lines about XR’s uses in civic engagement.
Watch the Threatcasting discussion
Watch the MSF Ethics Summit
Read the Lincoln Institute column
REPORT
THE AUGMENTED CITY
01.2025
THE AUGMENTED CITY
01.2025
“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 for Cornell Tech 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.
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.
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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