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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

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The UN predicts that by 2050, this proportion will rise to more than two thirds. In early 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting food supply chains across the planet, it was time to double down on the Feeding the City mission. A translocal collaboration is born. Photo: Kina Mama.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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Finishing is the ripest for disruption. According to UN forecasts, the number of people living in cities is expected to double by 2050, growing from 3.5 This is an indication that the industry is ready for disruption. Something in both the masonry and bricklayer arena as well as framing would be interesting.

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Mistaking performance for competence

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Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. It’s something he’s promised to update at the start of every year until 2050, “as I will then be 95 years old, and I suspect I’ll be a little too exhausted by then to carry on arguments about why I was right or wrong on particular points.” Fair enough. “So Do me proud.