Launching The Trillion Dollar Hashtag
I'm launching 'Trillion Dollar Hashtag' - a newsletter exploring how #SpaceasaService is reshaping the future of real estate in a
Next week, I'm launching 'Trillion Dollar Hashtag' - a newsletter exploring how #SpaceasaService is reshaping the future of real estate in an AI-driven world.
I’ll be covering a wide range of topics - from AI's impact on office demand to how technology is transforming retail spaces, from changing residential needs to the evolution of urban centers.
Some ten years ago, I started evangelising about #SpaceasaService, as a mindset that over-indexed on human centricity in all things real estate.
Where the greatest returns would accrue to those focussing on the health, happiness and productivity of users of real estate. Where the best investment returns would follow the best user experiences.
Covid took up the existing momentum towards this and turbo charged it. Suddenly everything we used to do in commercial real estate no longer required it.
We were at home, being serviced by e-commerce and working via Zoom.
Since then we have been ‘returning to the mean’ but the mean has moved. Post-COVID real estate is on a different planet to pre-COVID real estate.
This much we know.
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Exploring how AI and technology are reshaping real estate and cities to serve the future of work, rest, and play.
But now, we have to factor in the rise of AI, especially Generative AI, the most important ‘General Purpose Technology’ to impact the world in decades. Where will this take us?
This will be the topic of my newsletter: where are we going? As humans, workers, citizens. And how is ‘the space around us’ going to change to accommodate all of this?
What we do know is that the fundamental spirit of #SpaceasaService will become ever more important in an AI mediated world.
Us humans have to retain agency over the machines, and create and curate the world we want to live in. Space has to be designed and operated in the service of humans.
The #TrillionDollarQuestion is ..... how?
I’ll be kicking off the newsletter via a series of commentaries on ‘Ten Themes for the next Ten Years’. Ten hypotheses of what matters now that will still matter ten years down the road. Ten tent poles to stick in the sand!
As someone I've worked with on these topics before, you're on the list. If you know others interested in understanding how technology, AI, and human-centric design are reshaping the trillion-dollar real estate industry, please ask them to subscribe to 'Trillion Dollar Hashtag' here.
Share this with colleagues who need to understand where real estate is heading. The first edition, launching next week, will begin our exploration of 'Ten Themes for the next Ten Years.
Thank you for reading the first edition of Trillion Dollar Hashtag. Here’s to rethinking the future of real estate together.
Best regards,
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#SpaceasaService
Exploring how AI and technology are reshaping real estate and cities to serve the future of work, rest, and play.