A new industrial Kondratieff Cycle looms on the horizon, built around emerging, now tangible, infrastructure needs that will cost perhaps $10 trillion between 2020 and 2030, as discussed below. A partial provisional typology and examples include:
- Defensive armoring of (selective) cities and regions with a preference to protect gated enclaves of the plutocrats.
- Long neglected, decaying, obsolete infrastructure needs will explode: electric grids, tunnel between NJ and NY), countless bridges, airports, broadband, water and sewage projects.
- The food and energy infrastructure and cumulative practices will undergo rapid and massive alteration, perhaps beginning in 2030, way overdue — and way too late to forestall the massive damages.