Roads, bridges, ports.  Concrete and steal.  It is the hard stuff of infrastructure, all of which is necessary but not sufficient as we think about the future.  

Often overlooked in public policy discussions is the centrality of soft infrastructure to getting decisions right.  It all comes down to executing well against good ideas.  Dennis McKenna, the meme maker behind FutureStructure and the CEO of e.Republic, explains where soft infrastructure plays in this evolving framework for building the future.