Paul Saffo | Forecaster & Head of Future Studies at Stanford University (Rebroadcast)
As a holiday treat, this rebroadcast episode from January 2021 features Paul Saffo, forecaster and Head of Future Studies at Stanford University. He forecasts the future of city development in light of global civilizations, economic shifts, and the role of real estate post pandemic.
Paul talks from an outside perspective of the real estate industry, calling those who work and thrive in it “wickedly smart and wickedly practical.” The conversation highlights real estate as ground zero in urban development and future city growth.
Global civilization is the path he advocates for, acknowledging the need for collaboration on issues like climate change or pandemics that individual governments fail to solve alone. Paul uses the analogy of being a gardener to illustrate how he sees the economy moving forward, predicting that urban development will move with the new media revolution to address population and social demands.
He breaks down both the macro and micro level ways to look at real estate investments and capital growth. The significance of regional planners is highlighted and Paul encourages visionary approaches to merging global civilization and social cohesion.
By focusing on themes that have stood the test of time throughout centuries of change, Paul believes that we can become good ancestors and build urban developments that will take us farther into the future.
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