Thoughts Become Things
Why Does Every Finance Office Feel Like a Set from American Psycho?
In big finance, the office is a stage. It projects competence, scale, and control—the image clients expect from the people steering their money and, frankly, their future. Budgets, allocations, risk models—precision is the job. But does the look of that precision have to be ice-cold?
How to Train your Carbon Footprint to Fetch Coffee
Let’s face it: buildings are big, bold, and a bit bossy when it comes to energy use. It’s even more of an exaggeration when you think of places like New York City because in the land of skyscrapers, every open space in the grid is constantly being filled up just to contain the population. A higher density of people means a higher rate of carbon emissions. It’s that simple. Between the vehicular traffic, demands for electricity, and daily construction happening on every other block, it’s a no-brainer that urban use of fossil fuels is to blame.
The Architect’s New Assistant, A.I.
Our society has modernized itself greatly over the last few decades, broadened by an overwhelming growth of technology and an undying spirit motivated by success. Though even while propelled into the future, there is still a pesky stigma going around that sets many of us back. It’s more of a generalized fear than anything, a repressive idea that is actively separating people from excelling, closing their minds to alternate ways of engagement and production. This stigma is that artificial intelligence will eventually surpass us all, replace us even, especially within our professions and lifestyles. However, that jaw-dropping theory is a mere misconception.