The World : Physical Meets Digital : The World

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When I think about this merging of the physical world with the digital, I can hear and picture this hip-hop beat in my mind:

Structuring Designs, To Architect the Physical…

Building Digital Systems that’s Audio and Visual…

The code is ultra simple and it might garner a laugh, but for me it is exciting and opens up a universe of opportunities and possibilities. It is literally taking the built world and merging it with the digital.

The exciting part is not necessarily how I am going to capitalize on this, but how to connect the various pockets of knowledge that I have spent so much time to accumulate.

One morning while working on the L.A. Live Development construction team, I walked the job with one of the construction executives. He wanted me to provide an overall status of the project. I’ll never forget how rapidly he walked the giant site. It was not a walk like “let me get out of here, “ but rather the natural and calculating steps of a confident Big Horn Sheep climbing a steel slope. Prior to moving into the contracting side of the business, he was a concrete worker, and I had some similar experiences. We walked the job and I noted this and that; this is on its way, that is on hold for this reason, this is complete.

That day he told me: “you’ll never know it all in this business. It is a constant experience and you will always learn new techniques.” It was the best advice I received in my five years with the company.

When A.I. started to pick up, I wondered how it could be incorporated in what I do. I used the ChatGPT platform and realized it could create amazing efficiencies. When I started using ChatGPT, I understood that it was not perfect, but there was something important missing. There was a missing platform, a sort of missing interface that was relevant to development, design, and construction. I realized at that moment that I needed to dive into the basics of coding. It is a leap of learning, not to become an expert, but to understand what it can do and the gates that it can unlock so I can guide and shape this “thing.” Right now, it is so vast, because this industry is huge. It would be limiting for me to say I am going to do this or that. With systems development, there is the possibility to create something really special, not just a systems platform, but buildings as well. I know it is a tremendous opportunity because it honestly is a touch frightening. It is frightening just on the vastness of the scale.

When I look at this I don’t see a mountain, I see something like the Mariana Trench where I am already at the surface overlooking a unfathomable chasm. Sometimes, scaling a deep and dark trench is more difficult than going upward where your visibility is not as limited. A lot of people made it to the pinnacle of Everest and didn’t make it back down.

I also understood that an A.I. applied to development, architecture, and construction in the physical world would not be a miracle insight where I think of some concept to perform this task and go out and build a platform for it; There is more to it. These are integrated systems that must come together in a cross-disciplinary way and my variety of experience lends well as a hub of information that can wield a radial connection to coordinate experts.

The precedents are already there and this type of thing has already been done, but in a different way which is not necessarily obsolete now, but supercharged with the sunrise of the A.I. era. I can hear the “Learn to Code” chant and it makes me giggle. I have found that it is complicated but understandable; I totally get it. Going on this knowledge adventure is going to allow me to unlock aspects of the industry that I can deliver to a competent engineer that will take it to another universe.

A crazy thought about this moment that popped into my mind comes from way way back. Long ago there was a silly tradition when the wayward youth would ride the bus. When the bus crossed the train tracks they would throw up their hand signs signifying their various neighborhood affiliations. It was a passage across the train tracks when you traversed one neighborhood into another. Sometimes that crossing would be from a nice neighborhood into a sketchy one, or a sketchy one into a really sketchy one.

I just realized was that this concept of being an architect of physical buildings and digital systems is not making a transition back and forth from physical to digital, being apart of this new era is riding the train that straddles both worlds. My experiences provides the ability to pull aspects from each and incorporate them into a product or a platform or a system. That is where this exploration is heading.

albert williams