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And if we do that, that also means that as we continue to roll out the supply-side technology, we will have less of a job to do if we've actually managed to reduce our energy consumption, because we will then need less infrastructure on the supply side.
So this poses huge challenges for the issue of economic growth, because if we have our high carbon infrastructure in place, it means that if our economies grow, then so do our emissions.
This means we need to use existing infrastructure as much as possible.
If we look around, we have many LEDs around us, so there's a rich infrastructure of Li-Fi transmitters around us.
I wanted to find a way to also use existing infrastructure to receive data from our Li-Fi lights.
The origin of the power failure was the counterattack, but the fragile infrastructure, feeble cybersecurity, and the antiquated state of the power grid all contributed to the deaths of the civilians.
Because you are talking about children in school, you are talking about health, you are talking about infrastructure that is overcrowded.
And another thing that I believe is that to a large extent, what we are today paying for in Europe is the failures of integration models that didn't work in the '60s, in the '70s, in the '80s, in relation to big migration flows that took place at that time and generated what is today in many of the people, for instance, of the second generation of communities, a situation of feeling marginalized, having no jobs, having improper education, living in some of the neighborhoods that are not adequately provided by public infrastructure.
The Roman Empire was able to develop infrastructure to overcome these limitations, but other than that, modern cities as we know them, didn't really get their start until the Industrial Revolution, when new technology deployed on a mass scale allowed cities to expand and integrate further, establishing police, fire, and sanitation departments, as well as road networks, and later electricity distribution.
In the 20th century, we literally spent trillions of dollars building infrastructure to get water to our cities.
Two very good examples of this are the 19th-century United States, when the infrastructure rollout was really about public-private partnerships.
They have set up social media surveillance programs to collaborate with Microsoft, which had a nice infrastructure for doing this, and others, to look at Twitter feeds, to look at Facebook feeds, to look at search logs, to try to see early signs that drugs, either individually or together, are causing problems.
Economic development of landlocked countries is limited by lack of shipping infrastructure.
Connectography represents a quantum leap in the mobility of people, resources and ideas, but it is an evolution, an evolution of the world from political geography, which is how we legally divide the world, to functional geography, which is how we actually use the world, from nations and borders, to infrastructure and supply chains.
Meanwhile, our global infrastructure spending is projected to rise to nine trillion dollars per year within the coming decade.
We have been living off an infrastructure stock meant for a world population of three billion, as our population has crossed seven billion to eight billion and eventually nine billion and more.
As a rule of thumb, we should spend about one trillion dollars on the basic infrastructure needs of every billion people in the world.
And as all of this topographical engineering unfolds, we will likely spend more on infrastructure in the next 40 years, we will build more infrastructure in the next 40 years, than we have in the past 4,000 years.
And that is why infrastructure has just been included in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, because it enables all the others.
Even though Asia is home to the world's fastest growing militaries, these same countries are also investing billions of dollars in each other's infrastructure and supply chains.
In fact, for the first time in human history, we have a vast amount of delivery infrastructure available to us.
What if the parents' boycott was part of a larger strategy to identify and cut off the resources that ISIS needs to function; the skilled labor needed to produce food; the engineers needed to extract and refine oil; the media infrastructure and communications networks and transportation systems, and the local businesses that ISIS relies on?
And even in Poughkeepsie, my hometown, we thought about old industrial infrastructure.
Yes, prior to the war, almost half of the Syrian population lived in slums, peripheral areas without proper infrastructure, made of endless rows of bare block boxes containing people, people who mostly belonged to the same group, whether based on religion, class, origin or all of the above.
In other parts of the world, you have an infrastructure that allows for manufacturing to take place.
So, we believe that in those regions of the world where the population is large, and there's an infrastructure that can provide it, that a local, integrated, end-to-end system is really critical for its success.
And all that was cheaper than updating the surrounding sewer infrastructure.
The fifth thing is that we didn't invest enough in infrastructure.
First and foremost is infrastructure.
Because when policies and infrastructure fail, this is what happens on a daily basis.
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