How Will Culture and Civilization Be Passed On in the Age of AI? Handing Down the Knowledge of Companies and Nations, Based on Recent Research
As AI drives companies to freeze junior hiring and carry out mass layoffs, how to pass corporate culture and knowledge on to the next generation has become a pressing question. Defining succession as "the same mechanisms continuing to function even after the individual is gone," this article traces the twelve means by which humanity has handed down culture and civilization—from genes, imitation, and language through religion, architecture and cities, institutions, writing, schools, print, and software, to AI—as a single history. Drawing on recent research showing that AI can learn only from records, does not train successors, and defaults to the model average without instruction, it then lays out a design approach for what companies in the AI era should preserve and how, for each kind of information: culture, civilization, knowledge, institutions, values, and collective memory.
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Sparse Models: Origins, Why They Matter, and the Frontier and Future of LLMs
As of 2026, sparsity is no longer an optional efficiency trick: it is the default architectural constraint of frontier large models, deciding both what a large model costs to run and how accurately a long-document agent can read. This survey traces the lineage of sparsity as a single history, from sparse coding in the brain through wavelets, LASSO, and compressed sensing to MoE, sparse attention, and conditional memory, explains why LLMs went all in on sparsification in 2023–2026 with a systematic comparison of each lab's approach, and draws out actionable implications for building review agents for long documents and drawings.
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The History and International Comparison of Building Regulations Based on Recent Research
How do building regulations differ across countries? As AI-based compliance checking spreads, understanding how each country's legal system works becomes a prerequisite. Drawing on recent research, this article traces the history of law—from why law emerged, through the Code of Hammurabi, Roman law, the divergence of civil law and common law, codification, and the rise of the regulatory state—and the history of building regulations from outcome-based liability to performance-based codes and digitalization. It then classifies the legal systems of 20 countries and regions, mainly the G20, into 13 elements and their building regulations into 15 elements so that any two countries can be compared on the same terms, together with pages that visualize legal transplants as world maps and lineage diagrams.
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How to Find Growth Markets: Approaches to Predicting Growth Markets Based on Recent Research
Companies and nations that achieved historic growth invested in growth areas before most people recognized them. How can such growth markets be found? Drawing on recent research, this article organizes the sources of growth into four external changes—political, economic, social, and technological—and classifies forecasting methods into five families and twelve techniques, from S-curves and Wright's law to weak signals, the Delphi method, the lead user method, and scenario planning. It also surveys how investors, firms, researchers, and states put these methods into practice, reviews research trends since 2020, and examines the inherent limits of market prediction.
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Invention in the Age of AI: The Objects, Methods, Actors, Institutions, and Uses of Invention in Light of Recent Research
As AI dramatically lowers the barrier to inventing, what does invention actually mean? Drawing on recent research, this article distinguishes discovery, invention, and innovation; traces five paths through which great inventions arise; maps theories such as the adjacent possible alongside methodologies from TRIZ to the lead user method; follows how the actors of invention have shifted from individuals to teams and organizations; examines patents and other institutions for sharing and evaluating inventions; shows how society, firms, governments, and households capture their value; and considers how AI is transforming each of these dimensions.
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What Should a Government Do? The Role of Government and Its Policies in Light of Recent Research
What is a government, what should it aim for, and which policies can it deploy? Drawing on recent research in political science, public finance, and industrial policy, this article traces how the role of government has accumulated from animal groups to the modern state, classifies today's states into seven types, maps policies across six objectives and four instruments of government, and walks through an eight-step procedure — including quantification methods — for choosing which policies to implement.
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How AI Is Transforming Research: Subjects, Practitioners, Institutions, and Social Impact in the AI Age
Until a few years ago, I worked as a researcher. With the arrival of general-purpose, high-performance AI such as ChatGPT and Claude, I feel that research has c…
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Why MoE models are huge yet cheap — inside DeepSeek's innovations
Huge, yet cheap to run — MoE (Mixture of Experts) models such as DeepSeek and Kimi hold hundreds of billions to trillions of parameters, yet each token passes through only a handful of experts, keeping active compute at a fraction of total capacity. These slides walk through how MoE works, why router load balancing is hard, and the innovations DeepSeek introduced — auxiliary-loss-free balancing and its successors — in visual form.
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What Is Strategy: Cross-Disciplinary Theory from Business to Warfare to AI-Era Strategy Design
Strategy is a word that frequently gets tangled up with others—plans, business models, visions. Nor is it confined to business: we speak of strategy in war and…
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Why Games Are Addictive: Latest Research on Human Behavior Principles and Applications
Why can't we put a game down? Why do some people love studying while others hate it? What separates the things we can lose ourselves in from the things we can't…
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Growth Strategies of China's Leading Startup Founders and How They Differ from Silicon Valley
Because of my parents' work, I spent part of my childhood in China — in Dalian and Shenyang, in what was once Manchuria. Around the year 2000, when I was about…
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History's Fastest-Growing Companies, Nations, and Wealth Creators: Timeline, Context, and Strategies
What historical conditions, and what sequence of actions, have allowed the fastest-growing companies, nations, and wealthy individuals (business leaders and pri…
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Building Competitive Moats: What Creates Defensibility for General and Specialized AI Agents
The greater the need for a service (high demand) and the fewer competing services there are—for instance because it relies on technology that is hard to master…
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Open vs. Closed Technology: Approaches to Maximizing Enterprise Value and Social Impact
Releasing technology you developed in-house—as open source, for example—can drive adoption in a short time, but it also invites a crowd of competitors offering…
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Singapore's Vertical Village: Kampung Admiralty
I recently visited Kampung Admiralty in northern Singapore. Completed in 2017, it is Singapore's first integrated community for seniors: a single mixed-use buil…
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OMTM and KPI Targets for Startups and New Ventures at Each Stage
When you launch a startup or a new business, what goals should you actually be working toward? This article sets out, for each growth stage of a startup or new…
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Designing Autonomous Agent Loops: Architecture Beyond Prompts
Note: This article is a written adaptation (restructured in manuscript form) of an internal slide-style deck. Its subject is the design of a resilient multi-age…
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Serving as Judges for an AI×Architecture Competition—and Exploring Our Own Entry
I recently had the honor of serving as a judge for the U25 AI×3D PERSPECTIVE AWARD 2026, an AI-driven architecture competition organized by the Real Estate Rese…
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Corporate Negotiation: Processes, Theory, and Methodology Based on Latest Research
Negotiation is a process in which the parties involved work together to maximize their gains. Yet few people ever get the chance to see the full picture of the…
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Guidelines for Enterprise Process Automation
How should digital transformation (DX) and business-process automation be approached—with what mindset, and through what process? Companies are tackling it in a…
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How large a market should AI agent companies target? TAM theory, case studies, and latest research
In my day job, I build AI agents specialized for the real estate and construction sector. Whenever we create a new business or startup like this, we always esti…
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Making DX and IT investment decisions: An integrated approach using IS Success Model, IT Business Value, Real Options, J-Curve, and RBV/VRIO
In my work I regularly speak with people at many companies and government bodies, and lately I have sensed a sharp rise in interest in adopting AI. Much of it s…
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Product maturity stages: Key actions and milestones for each phase
Drawing on some of the world's most influential writing on startup building and product development, this article lays out what a team should be doing at each s…
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AI Explainability: History, Methods, and Implementation in Architectural Drawing Review
The explosive progress of deep learning in modern AI was not driven by any single factor. It was the simultaneous maturation of several elements—models, data, a…
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How will the world change after AGI? Politics, economics, society, and technology
Today's AI systems (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and the like) can already be said to know more than the typical human specialist. Once that capability is generalize…
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How will the startup ecosystem evolve after AGI?
3 Masahiro Taima 對間 昌宏 May 18, 2026, 02:37 Today's AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and the like) can already be said to know more than the average human exp…
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How will enterprise and SME organizations change after AGI?
Today's AI systems (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and the like) can already be said to know more than the average specialist. Once that capability is generalized even…
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How will product UI/UX transform after AGI?
Today's AI systems (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and others) can already be said to know more than the average specialist. Once that capability is generalized furthe…
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How will academic research change after AGI?
Even today's AI systems (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and others) can fairly be said to know more than the average specialist. Once that capability is generalized f…
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How will real estate and construction evolve after AGI?
Today's AI systems (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and the like) can already be said to hold more knowledge than the typical human expert. Once that capability is gene…
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The hard work ethos of great leaders and organizations
Almost every story about people or organizations that have achieved something truly great includes the same detail: they worked harder and committed more deeply…
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When will AGI arrive? Tracking 14 AI industry leaders' predictions from 2014 to 2026
AI eradicates the vast majority of cancers AI makes in 5–10 years the Nobel Prize–level discoveries that would have taken humans 50–100 years AI puts 20% of whi…
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How will AGI destroy humanity? Seven scenarios from AI industry leaders
Many leaders of AI companies have spoken openly about the risk that AGI (artificial general intelligence) could wipe out humanity. But through what kinds of sce…
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The era of AI agents autonomously controlling BIM: History and future of CAD and BIM according to latest research
AI is steadily becoming part of everyday life and work, and the architecture and civil engineering fields are no exception: expectations for AI are running high…
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What can the latest AI do? 600+ capabilities comprehensively mapped from Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, and other major platforms
AI is advancing at a remarkable pace, and the list of things it can do keeps growing. Yet most of what circulates on social media and in tech news consists of i…
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Visiting the Bat Trang Ceramic Museum in Hanoi
I visited Bảo tàng Gốm Bát Tràng (the Gallery of Bat Trang Ceramic Community House), a ceramics museum in Hanoi. Completed in 2021, it is a mixed-use complex lo…
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Key insights from 60 books read by entrepreneurs worldwide
This piece reads like a collection of maxims from some of the world's most successful founders and executives, organized around three lenses: finance, organizat…
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Japan's BIM Review Landscape: A Discussion with Industry, Government, and Academic Leaders
On March 18, 2026, at AIS WEEK 2026 KYOTO, hosted by the Architectural Informatics Society at Kyoto University, I had the opportunity to join a four-person disc…
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The Future City: Ideas from Global Architects, Researchers, and Entrepreneurs
Ebenezer Howard's "Garden City" of the 1890s, Le Corbusier's "Radiant City" and Frank Lloyd Wright's "Broadacre City" of the 1930s, Jane Jacobs's "city of diver…
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International trends in BIM review: Comparative analysis and strategies for implementation
BIM-based review is being adopted in countries around the world, but progress varies considerably from one country to the next, depending on factors such as gov…
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What makes design beautiful? Scientific insights into aesthetic perception
Beauty is generally thought of as something we judge subjectively. Yet science, using objective methods, is gradually uncovering how this feeling actually works…
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What startups are global leading VCs investing in? Seed-stage companies from the past year
In 2025, AI advanced and spread rapidly around the world, even as geopolitical fragmentation and prolonged wars continued in many regions. Against this backdrop…
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AI agent and Agentic AI applications: Emerging fields from latest patents
The potential of AI agents and Agentic AI is being actively debated across a wide range of industries. This article surveys the state of patent filings worldwid…
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Foundational Theories of AI Agents: Overview, Mechanisms, Evaluation Methods, and Future Prospects
AI agents and agentic AI are attracting worldwide attention, with high expectations for their use across many settings. Drawing on the latest research, this art…
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A Brief History of Cities and Buildings: How Technology Has Shaped Our Built Environment
As globalization and the sharing of knowledge through social media accelerate, so does the development of new technologies such as generative AI, construction 3…
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How Industry Leaders Failed: Bankruptcy Cases of 8 Major Real Estate and Construction Companies Including WeWork and Evergrande
In August 2023, Evergrande Group, China's second-largest property developer, filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection in a New York court. Given the sheer sca…
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AI in Architectural Design: Latest Research and Applications
AI has been making rapid inroads into architectural design, urban planning, and the construction industry in recent years. Yet there is still surprisingly littl…
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