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The Author and direction will need to come from designers that have entered the twilight van Hemmen

Rik van Hemmen is the President of Martin & Ottaway, a zone spiral for many years. This type of marine consulting ? rm that specializes in the resolution of design may very well be the last place technical, operational and ? nancial issues in maritime.

where AI will take over, if at all.

Do these professionals actually exist?

We need this type of analysis, but who is doing it?

These professionals would be the transportation macro designers. I have looked far and wide, but, so far, have never seen an engineer specialize at that level. And without the bene? t of those elusive engineers, we are bound to come up with the wrong solution time after time. Not a pleasant prospect.

For each column I write, MREN has agreed to make a small donation to an organization of my choice.

For this column I nominate the

Center for Post Carbon Logistics. www.postcarbonlogistics.org

They are not quite doing the macro economics thing, but at least are knocking on its door.

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