Luís M. A. Bettencourt
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Therefore, you know, people impel you to move.
So if you start thinking about the city in this way,
I think you can start understanding problems of segregation and poverty as we did, as lack of connections or being excluded from the network, much more deeply than it's usually done.
You also start understanding issues even of infrastructure that it must be enabling of this kind of dynamics rather than just being a thing you do.
And I think you also understand that the part of what cities create is not just the material cost benefit, but it has to do with the thing you are emphasizing, which is this idea of an open future, right?
More open futures, more possibilities, which are both individual.
that an individual feels that, but also collective, that both the city and the nation, perhaps, and the world can have more futures that are more possible and some of them better than others.
So without that latent invention, which is possible in these environments, then we're kind of stuck and things cannot get better.
So I think if you think about a city more that way, which great mayors sometimes understand that intuitively, but it had not been science.
I think you have something that's a different kind of complex system, something that has coherence across time and space, as we said, but at the same time, you understand its failure modes and what needs to be improved and so on, and the level of social policy and individuals and so on, but also you start understanding its scope into the future, including in three dimensions and future space stations and so on.
Yeah.
And I think you understand something really fundamental about humans and sort of the kind of creature we are, why we create these systems and what could happen in the future.
Great talk, Barry.
This is fun.
Thank you.
Take care, Sean.
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