Frontier Brief / reviewed editorial
The built world is acquiring a live nervous system
Sensors, digital twins, and flexible grids can reveal how infrastructure behaves—but only if institutions can act on the picture.
Cities are full of latent operational knowledge: maintenance notes, queue data, resident reports, energy constraints, and workarounds known only by the people closest to a system. The opportunity is not to simulate an entire city. It is to connect one neglected observation to one decision, using new sensing and modeling capacity without hiding the human tradeoffs inside a dashboard.
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