Jerry Hirshberg

President

Nissan Design International Inc.

I stand on very unusual ground as a car designer who believes there is no such thing as reading the future. I don’t think we guess the future, we make it. The most powerful aspect of thinking about what might be coming is thinking about what we want to do about L.A.

The only folks I disagree with right now are the doomsayers. I sense growing strength in this city. After the racial tensions and those miserable years those miserable summers the city went though the city did not evaporate, did not crumble, which many people predicted. It is a city of surprise. God knows what the surprises will be, but they will surprise.