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Fall 2024

Mass. Exodus
Massachusetts is one of the richest states in the country — because it’s pricing out its own middle class. Why did the state stop building enough to house them?

What We Should Build

... and probably could soon if we tried

Giant nets to clean garbage from the ocean  •  Homes where old people and disabled people can help each other out  •  Chains of geothermal power stations to keep the Yellowstone supervolcano from destroying modern civilization (and get a lot of clean power too)  •  A landscape we have to navigate together  •  Nuclear reactors that won’t melt down  •  Houses, a chip factory, anything really in place of Portland’s Hillsboro Airport •  A whole-of-patient approach to medicine •  Towns, cities, architecture, transit, and street plans the way we used to build •  Schools for building portfolios, not credentials •  A tech stack for “deep work”

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