This is a mouthful I know

ShortFormContent at Blogger: Why Beyond Pattern Language: "Economic Realism: To supplant the car the living space must become the new car, a mass produced, modular unit of many varieties which can be put together in innumerable ways to make the dwellings of the future. This increases by at least five times the reach of the current auto industry. We will decline as an economy until this is realized."

I know it sounds crazy but think about it. We need a do over on space. Our notions of space are entirely dictated by options rather than necessities. There is nothing that says floors must be hard, that furniture cannot be part of basic construction, that rooms should not be transportable or replicable because a model not a stand alone. There is nothing that says today's construction workers and carpenters cannot be the people that mass produce the modular units that will be the easily replaceable spaces that we tie together onsite in tomorrow's cyber cities.

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