Here are 18 mega-projects that are actually happening right now.
1. Three Gorges Dam, China – $37B
The largest man-made structure on Earth.
It can lift ships weighing up to 3,000 tons and displaces enough water to fill four Olympic-sized swimming pools every time it operates.
2. The Line, Saudi Arabia – $725B
A city unlike anything ever built:
A 110-mile straight-line city between mirrored skyscrapers
1,600 feet tall, designed for 9 million residents
No cars, no streets - fully sustainable with underground hyper-speed transport
Started construction in 2022
Here are 18 mega-projects that are actually happening right now.
1. Three Gorges Dam, China – $37B
The largest man-made structure on Earth.
It can lift ships weighing up to 3,000 tons and displaces enough water to fill four Olympic-sized swimming pools every time it operates.
2. The Line, Saudi Arabia – $725B
A city unlike anything ever built:
A 110-mile straight-line city between mirrored skyscrapers
1,600 feet tall, designed for 9 million residents
No cars, no streets - fully sustainable with underground hyper-speed transport
Started construction in 2022
Meet Sergey Aleynikov, a programmer from Russia, who was earning $400,000 a year at Goldman Sachs.
He was working on their system for high-speed stock trading.
In 2009, he took a new position with Teza Technologies, with a salary of $1.2 million.
On his final day at Goldman, he moved some code to an external server located in Germany.
That's when everything escalated quickly.
When the FBI took Aleynikov into custody, the government's lawyers labeled it an incredibly significant theft for the bank.
But why is computer code so precious that a huge firm like Goldman would want to bring criminal charges?
The reason points to where the real control lies on Wall Street.