[2040] - At which point in human history did we get into thinking that there was nothing else to be afraid of but ourselves. At which point it became so natural to think of the future as something that could be taken for granted.
Twenty years ago we were reminded of how fragile we truly are in our own ecosystem, and we learned it in the worst possible way, by losing the ones we cared about. We had to change not only our behavior and habits but also our way to react to things we cannot control or foreseen. Viruses.

Cities started to prioritize health-related issues over human-packing architecture and to rethink the use of some areas with one scope, fast adaptation and response to a similar situation as the one we experienced twenty years ago. For the Hudson Yards, the City Council decided one of those areas had to be around the Train Station, where there sat a huge parking lot. It was perfect at a strategic level as they could also work on the adaptation of one of the trains to become the first mobile UCI and sterile material transport to connect the emergency health care facility with permanent ones all over the city.