Banning Garrett

Strategic thinker, writer, consultant, speaker, entrepreneur, and Singularity University faculty

[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

Listen to Ezra Klein's interview with Kim Stanley Robinson about his profound new clifi novel, The Ministry for the Future. Best book on how to transform our world to meet the existential climate challenge. @CntrClimSec @Laurie_Garrett
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[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

Genuine license plate photographed by a pal in Virginia: All Hail #RBG

[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

Technology-led transformation of urban food ecosystems that can be accelerated in the post-covid world - see my 10 min presentation with Fred Davis at ExO World Summit (virtual) Apr 15. https://t.co/hiN5GryzRC. Our free report at: https://t.co/TKUm638b6G

[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

What is our flying car future? My son Brian Garrett-Glaser's overview of the current situation and future prospects for eVTOLs. Fast-growing industry with big challenges ahead despite the hype. @Laurie_Garrett @TechCrunch @psaffo
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[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

My Interview for the World Bank on disruptive technologies for development, focused especially on connecting city and farm with tech to transform urban food ecosystems @WorldBankAfrica @Laurie_Garrett @singularityu
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[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

Check out this path-breaking article by Al Watkins, 24-year veteran of the World Bank and Chair of the Global Solutions Summit, on the challenge of actually deploying technology solutions at scale to address the Sustainable Develop…https://t.co/fWcHK5yvmn https://t.co/QsCMtGIirK

[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

Nice to have my sister plug a new report I co-authored with Fred Davies, "Connecting Farm, City, and Technology: Transforming Urban Food Ecosystems." #farmreport. Read the full report here https://t.co/HeGZ6wwEJE. How tech can help build urban food ecosystems

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

Exciting new report shows how smartphones, blockchain, solar and wind power and other smart tech can turn cities into net farm/food producers, growing food inside city limits. (Full disclosure, written by my brother @BanningGarrett ). https://t.co/vqQao7MRyj

[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

3DP disrupting supply chains: "Industrial-grade 3D printing moves production closer to the point of use, changing relationships among suppliers, customers and service providers like transportation carriers." #3DPrinting #globalization
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[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

3D printing distributed manufacturing will bring production of almost anything to almost anywhere - D'Aveni. See his pathbreaking new book, The Pan-Industrial Revolution. This is foundation for global econ transformation. #3dprint
#3DPRINTING
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[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

3D Printing 2019 expected to be a major disruptive force in global manufacturing - Avi Reichental in Forbes #3dprint #3DPRINTING

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[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

Tech can enhance sustainable
& resilient urban-rural food ecosystems - See Davis & Garrett "Technology for Sustainable Urban
Food Ecosystems in the Developing
World" https://t.co/aS0mBgosB3

[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

Spoke on "Global Challenges & Cities" with colleagues Jerry Hultin & Roberto Alavarez of GFCC at excellent Smart Cities Workshop in Porto Alegre, Brazil, organized by the Innovation Alliance. Discussed PA's pathbreaking Sustainable Innovation Zone (ZISPOA).

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

@TheLavinAgency @BanningGarrett @bgarrettglaser @JohnCampbellcfr Just released: My @TheLancet piece arguing, "Kagame and the #Rwanda model of development may not merit heroic devotion." Reviewing IN PRAISE OF BLOOD & UN genocide documents.
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[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

"Tech can sustainably feed developing world cities in the future - here's how" - new article by Fred Davies and me on Singularity Hub. World of 'peak globalization' needs move to more production of food, energy, & products where they are consumed. https://t.co/p2MmozE83r

[Laurie Garrett @Laurie_Garrett]

The 1st study linking CO2 & rising climate temperature was, “Circumstances affecting the heat of the sun’s rays” — presented Aug 23, 1856 at the annual mtg of the @aaas . A man read the paper, but it was work by New York female Suffragette, Eunice Foote.
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[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

Rapid 3D printing with metal -- the factory of the future without assembly lines but rather machines making a huge range of products, including geometries impossible with conventional tech. Wired report. #3dprinting https://t.co/iisNswPnHK

[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

Fall of the American Empire: Krugman on how Trump is undermining the values and institutions, domestic and international, that made America great. https://t.co/l6QDrgwYLY?

[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

Freeland is right - it is SAD when it requires a Canadian to tell our Congress what every member should be saying themselves while pointing to undermining of our alliances by the Commander-in-Chief. https://t.co/9tHIPg4rlR

[Chrystia Freeland @cafreeland]

The far wiser path – and the more enduring one – is to strengthen our existing alliance of liberal democracies. To hold the door open to new friends. To reform and renew the system we have built together.

[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

Will Trump dump G-7 & multilateralism for a new trilateral G-3 triumvirate with Russia & China? Democratic allies as enemies & autocratic adversaries as friends? Trump is undermining global cooperation at time world faces common growing challenges & risks.

[Banning Garrett @BanningGarrett]

These experiments for producing food in space will help move forward urban agriculture with huge reduction in use of land, water and energy - and food resilience in the face of climate change impact on agriculture. https://t.co/9ykq1RRESH

[spacepolar @spacepolar]

First tomato harvest #madeinantarctica from our #greenhouse! In total 228 orange #tomatoes with a weight of 1.262 kg and 261 red tomatoes with a weight of 1.748 kg. #EDENISS #antarctica