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Brian Potter is a Senior Infrastructure Fellow at IFP and author of the Construction Physics newsletter.

Brian writes about the technology and economics of building construction, with a focus on improving productivity and reducing costs. He previously managed an engineering team at Katerra, a SoftBank-backed construction startup, and has 15 years of experience as a structural engineer.

Brian has a bachelor's in civil engineering from Georgia Tech, and a master's in systems engineering from University of Central Florida. ...more

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How Long Do We Wait for New Inventions?

In her book on the history of the laser, historian Joan Bromberg notes that the technological and scientific predecessors of the maser (which itself preceded the laser - two critical technologies whose developmental histories I sketched in this piece two months ago) were in place for decades before physicist Charles Townes had the insight to combine them: