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So I've shown how architecture can connect people on this kind of horizontal campus scale

So I've shown how tall buildings can be social connectors, but what about public architecture?

This all emerged from a simple curiosity: “Who made that?”

I want to pause on that question: What makes a word real?

I am convinced that the real value of tenure is at a global level

Before I go any further, let me clarify my role in all of this

I remain unpersuaded, and I’m not alone in this

I'm going to do this as a show of hands: How many of you still regularly refer to a dictionary, either print or online?

I think we should exhaust the other options before we take a metaphysical sledgehammer to it

Okay, so that looks like most of you.

Now, a second question. Again, a show of hands

Okay, many fewer.

With that, let's turn to dictionaries

Now, don't get me wrong, dictionaries are fantastic resources, but they are human and they are not timeless

If I asked you to picture the air, what do you imagine?

I was particularly interested in moments of time that are examples of life changing the air

But perhaps it's time we start thinking about climate change on the same visceral level that we experience the air.

How many of you have used an electronic spreadsheet, like Microsoft Excel?

Very good. Now, how many of you have run a business with a spreadsheet by hand, like my dad did for his small printing business in Philadelphia? A lot less.