Some bold new projects to retune economics aim to change this.Britain has form here.
The advances can also be seen in the emergence of bold new projects intended to create more ambitious machines that can improve safety and security, entertain and inform, or just handle everyday tasks.
With around 1,500 scientists and staff tackling areas ranging from cancer research to neuroscience, pandemics, and even bold new projects to use genome-editing techniques on human embryos, life itself will be under the microscope.
But any plans for bold new projects are often met head-on by outraged residents who feel their local area is already overbuilt.
Four decades ago, FBI special agents John Douglas and Robert Ressler began a bold new research project alongside a Boston crime victim expert named Dr. Ann Burgess.
But the very fact that political leaders are seriously discussing bold new transit projects is a welcome development.
Ray-Jones's snaps of bold new British projects of the 1960s retain a human element, juxtaposing huge new schemes like Thamesmead with the people who live in them, and casting a sceptical eye on the high-rise ambitions of the era.
Earlier this month we took a look at the bold new participatory mapping project for every settlement on Earth: Missing Maps.
The actor, writer, director and artist has now come to Cannes with a bold and high-minded new project: a screen version of William Faulkner's 1930 novel As I Lay Dying, which Franco directs from his own screenplay, and co-stars as Darl Bundren, the glowering son in a dirt-poor family in rural Mississippi.
As soon as they saw the building's swooping waves of glittering steel, the two agreed: They had found the architect for Arnault's dream project, a bold new modern art museum in the middle of Paris that would showcase both LVMH's corporate collection of modern art and Arnault's extensive personal art trove.
