We need to be working right now on infrastructure".
Hills, forests and river catchments are now "green infrastructure", while biodiversity and habitats are "asset classes" within an "ecosystem market".
There is a term that geographers and urban planners are using now called infrastructure ecology, to describe the interdependency of our infastructures, relating to resilience, vulnerabilities.
"There's a huge appreciation now for infrastructure and how you make it into something new, something exciting, something that recalls our history," said Kim Mathews, a principal with the landscape architecture firm Mathews Nielsen.
Many organizations are now outsourcing infrastructure and operations, and more will do so in the next few years.
"I think practically where this can affect refugees [in the future] is that we now have infrastructure where we can provide connectivity and access to information significantly faster than before," says Simon de Haan, Praekelt Foundation's chief engineer.
Spinning up a new instance typically takes around 3 min. In all deployments up to now, this infrastructure worked without any problems that would have affected the experience of the end user.
Now that infrastructure is virtualized, developers are taking on a more operational role.
