Mental health becomes civic infrastructure
By Futurist Thomas Frey
Every city on Earth has spent the last century building the same basic stack: roads to move bodies, pipes to move water, wires to move power, and fiber to move information. We measure a city’s greatness by how well these systems function. A pothole becomes a scandal. A blackout becomes a crisis. We have entire departments, budgets, and bond measures dedicated to keeping these invisible systems humming.
Yet the thing that actually determines whether people in that city are thriving — their emotional state, their sense of connection, their reason to get out of bed — has almost none of that infrastructure behind it. We built systems for moving electrons and gallons. We never built systems for moving belonging.
That’s about to change. Welcome to the age of emotional infrastructure.
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