This is one of the best arguments yet for cyber communities

"'Message from my friend Pip: The thing I really struggle with as a parent at the start of the C21st is just how present and essential I am to their social life. I resent being their social secretary and taxi driver - if I haven't phoned someone up, made plans, gone to school in the car so I have the means to bring friends home, my kids don't see other kids. I don't have time to work!"

Divide dense areas into walkable communities with schools dispersed among them. Add in businesses and end today's car-based zoning. A cyber-community needs at least 5,000 or so to make it financially viable to have shared eco-systems. But this movement can begin now as people insist that the present drive-centered life is a bust.

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