The original call
Original year: 2025
2026 assessment
Scorecard verdict: Hit
Hit — and notice this is no longer a bold future bet, it’s a description of how the leading firms already work. By 2025 the supporting cast had all arrived: dynamic 4D digital twins replacing 2D blueprints, AI-driven project management, self-healing concrete and transparent solar-generating glass, modular projects cutting deliveries and embodied carbon. The thing I was once arguing for from a stage is now the operating model of the people who build for a living.