Google Should Think Triadically

Google invented a driver free car But not a car free community Google would do much better than that By starting to think triadically 



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Instead of building a house in 20 hours move beyond houses

3D printer can build a house in 20 hours - YouTube http://buff.ly/SNIY4a Why build a house in 20 hours when you could build a whole community by using the above technology to build a cyber-matrix that would hold as many spaces as you wish This matrix could be the skeleton for mass produced surfaces created remotely by factories that now make cars
Thinking in terms of houses is the wrong approach It sets the mind on what produces sprawl It does not see the need to move beyond the car It does not move far enough beyond green It does not create sustainability
It is lovely that we can say we built that and mean that NASA stumbled on enlarging CAD Lovely to build a house in 20 hours But it would be more lovely to dream of an actual move forward that would get the job done
This is like Google's driverless car It is an oxymoron in the making Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store



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We will not get the change we need until we are willing to articulate what it is

Yes or no
We want smaller schools we can walk to  with teachers who are part of the community
We want the option of working from home  or at work spaces we can walk to
We want neighborhoods that are face to face and safe from speeding traffic
We want a mix of things we associate with cities scaled down to serve local communities
We want enough diversity near at hand so we can create a vibrant local economy
We do not need to drive to shop if shopping becomes selecting at cyber-kiosks staffed by experts
We would prefer home delivery if we could select from the world at a cyber-kiosk we could walk to
We would prefer a car-free community that is designed as a unified structure that is eco-sufficient
I recognize that much of this is not even within the purview of planners but it should be
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We live in square mile wastelands everywhere I go I see the open spaces moulder in the sun

+ We live in square mile wastelands Everywhere I go I see the open spaces like ruins left to moulder 'neath the sun And I see built around them the relics of a past where building was corrupted retro and where we treated people like things or consumers fish mouths open  sucking in the detritus of our dismal plastic sea + I see these square mile wastelands  turning into stadiums not for teams of Yankees but for all of us to live in walk in work in' enjoy in to get education in to lie sick in bed in  a block or so from home to go to school in  in 100 separate places  to spawn new economies to be sheltered from the flood storms impervious to wind storms Where public is so nice that folk just want to sit there and write their thoughts on tables eat there drink there + I see a rising cluster of such new communities filling up these lost and desolate square miles half medieval cities half  pre-fab custom spaces where walls are thin as paper sound proof as castle walls  Where stairs give way to rising ways and trafficked streets give way to walks Where the commute is over because any work space anywhere connects with spaces anywhere + Yes I see all these things like others who see forward when they pass these wasteland places and reflect that they are but the harbingers of something bold and new + Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store

Dear Jeff Bezos, here's your big idea. You can do this.

Jeff Bezos - Forbes http://buff.ly/Y2ja8R
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Jeff you told Charlie Rose you wanted to do something no one else has done Alright Do this
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Hire a team to design a prototype of what I have called a cyber-community A diverse multi-purpose community  of around 10K persons   car-free  with urban amenities  where one lives and works and recreates.  The design should have the following components The community should be compact  no more than a mile from side to side It should have no stairs and no more than four levels It should be built to withstand flood fire and extreme weather It should generate and distribute  the bulk of its own energy It should collect much of its energy  in the form of wind and sun It  should be prefabricated Its surfaces and walls should be smart and dupllicable and easily replaceable A cyber community of this sort would have residences and work spaces and all the public and commercial elements we associate with urban life scaled to the needs of the particular community Stores would be cyber-kiosks  where one could access all products on a large screen and order them for delivery Public facilities would be used in common There would be a public square every 100 yards or so
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Once you get the design and build a model you will be able to market this as the wave of an ecologically sane future When you build your next data center build one of these
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There is much more on cyber-communities on this little blog Believe me Jeff the person who makes properly-scaled integral sustainable living normative will have opened the door to a viable future
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New Ideas for Post-Sandy Construction - Revised 11/29/2012

+ Do not rebuild rethink Imagine a flood and plan beyond its reach
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Post-Sandy construction should be an opportunity to create new concepts of building and community
Among the concepts to consider
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Either raise structures or move them to higher ground
Create new mass-prodsuced pre-fabricated smart surfaces -  walls floors ceilings streets 
Create matrix's (skeletal structures) to support walls and other surfaces and to carry all elements in and out of  living and working spaces
Stop building individual houses and imagine something past repeated  apartments - create spaces for community life
Ultimately the space occupied by a stadiun could become a living and working community for 5-10K people 
If a community is dense enough it can be car-free with most everything in walking distance
When ways are clear they can be used for  other than automobile transportation moving surfaces rides etc
Rooms and other spaces like cars should become standard models made remotely and delivered in easily assembled parts
Create at least one public space for every four or so living spaces 
Create stair free communities of no more than four levels and build to withstand extreme weather + Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store

More Stacked Images - How Shall We Build for The Future?

I see the future integral and car free  beyond the suicidal commitment to fixed fossil fuel disaster I see an eminently logical conclusion that restores diversity and face-to-face and over-leaps the horrendous boundaries we have erected   by creating what is in effect a pariah class of persons taken to be not who they are but who we project them to be The integral community of the future is car free It has a dense population living in complete privacy within community It walks to work to play to sing to dance to be It has intentional sitting areas There are enough people within a mile  to enable an economy to grow and flourish THE IMAGES The Top First  The dank and darkish hole of a past that has devolved into an oil soaked sprawl Second  A Plethora of Options challenging the existence of a dark dank future Third  An initial Iteration of a walkable cyber-community where principles of pattern language and invention of utterly new construction methods begin to create safe and secure living  How shall begin We already have begun We know image one We sense image two It remains to venture into iteration Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store

What is truth Pilate asked which means he could not see

Seeing and hearing is the essence of the prophetic challenge It is echoed in Scripture from first Isaiah to Paul with a stop at Jesus on the way Anyone with a mind now sees the unfolding drama of the end of oil Chevron tries to ameliorate it with soft short term profit words but when whatever end to oil comes it will have been reasonable to stop using it long before we did and to begin building the post-oil world made manifest on the very pages of this blog car free integral and a quarter revolution beyond binary silliness
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Visualizing A Car Free Cyber Community One

Visualizing A Car Free Cyber Community Two | ShortFormContent at Blogger:
The squares are residentialThe rectangles are commercial and institutionalThe circles are squares for sitting and playThe ovals are kiosks and other small structuresrepresenting specialties and local employmentConnections between structures are part of a commonmatrix that serves the wholeA cyber community is made up of a maximum of four levelsThe total area is a mile or so square

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Postmodern Ideas and Their Limitations

Those Fabulous Confabs: "If TED’s platinum brand is at risk of becoming a generic, it has been with the full support of the brand’s owner. As the TED Talks online uncovered a far-flung global yen for idea videos, TED’s TEDX program, in which the company grants would-be curators licenses to organize local mini-TEDs, has been unexpectedly popular. Since it launched in March 2009, there have been more than 3,000. There has been a TEDX Hunstville (Alabama), a TEDX Timisoara (Romania), a TEDX Gujranwala (Pakistan). There is now one TEDX, and usually more, every day somewhere in the world."

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Try cyber-communities that actually exist.

Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes

More on the Matrix That Really Matters

ShortFormContent at Blogger: The Matrix That Really Matters Has Not Been Built Yet:

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Infrastructure cannot be "repaired" if we have no idea of what we want

Suppose we want something beyond cars and commuting

Beyond detached houses built for size

Suppose we want walkable communities with enough population to enable viable local businesses

A way to work and be educated at or near home

Zoning that integrates everything in a sane and rational way

The miracle of cyberspace means we can choose where and how we live and move and have our being

Once the mind is liberated from resignation to our current sprawl culture

we can see a cyber-community as a giant step beyond what we now have

We could mass produce lego like components for the construction of modular units of space

These could supply the world

We could create a giant matrix that would serve 5-10K

Accommodating myriad forms built from these components
Enabling technological macro elements that no individual could afford
For recycling,
Energy generation
Enjoyable face to face living
A reformed education system
The integration of cyber-capacity with every element of socio-cultural existence

Cyber-communities would be safe from most weather emergencies

They would enable new economies

New jobs

New mobility

More at the link above.

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What nobody gets about the future

For what it's worth here is what I would sayNo one is getting about the futureThat the day of driving our lives away will endThat the day of building detached houses will endThat the race to save these things will impede the futureThat the future will be either necessity or choiceWe could freely decide to move to car free communities and a high tech alternativeTo today's sclerotic and impossible transportationOr we could be forced into ultimately conceding the conclusions aboveChoice is vastly better than necessityWe could create multi-zoned car-free cyber-communitiesWith modular spaces build within an eco-sufficient matrixWith reformed education because the neighborhood becomes a schoolBy accepting their ultimate necessityAnd modeling new forms of social beingWhere we could walk to everythingWhere the need for  necessary travel is trumped by technologyWhere the need for urban in gratified in the micro environmentWhere cyber means that we utilize cyberAs communal experience via kiosks staffed and placedThroughout the cyber-communityAnd so forth and so on as noted hereAnd in the blog complex
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Is there any better argument for my cyber communities

America's new poor - CBS News: "But for more families here, prosperity is a pretense. The job's lost, the savings are gone, and the big house is either in foreclosure or on its way. And just keeping food on the table is a struggle.

So Forsyth's newly-needy file into local food banks."

We are getting nowhere believing we can simply recover our sprawl nightmare. Where in gods name are the planners, the policy makers, the visionaries? It is all right here in this blog complex. We can no longer have a car, sprawl, oil culture. Period.


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Today's Corporate Phone Set-Up Should Be Deep-Sixed

Current call modes are the direct result of out automobile sprawl societyIn my car free cyber community you would have everything face to face You would walk a mile or less to reach anythingYou would find representatives in kiosksThey would complete transactions of all sortsIf you had to wait there would be tables and chairs
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Planning for a nonexistent future

New Auto Technology Can Tell When You’re ‘Driving While Drowsy’ - TIME NewsFeed: "In the age of multilingual GPS devices, driver seat massages and cruise control navigation, it was only a matter of time before manufacturers developed drowsy driver alerts.

That's right – technology to tell you when you're in danger in nodding off behind the wheel, bringing you back to full attention through dashboard icons and warning alarms."

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This assumes that a century from now there will be fuel to support an automobile world. I have my doubts. I believe the world of cars and sprawl is ending. The future will not be a slow evolution of the infrastructure we have now. It is more likely to be a response to cataclysmic environmental events. It is for this reason that I have proposed the cyber-community as a successor to sprawl-oil society.

Intelligent design of the future world has already been done

ShortFormContent at Blogger: An intelligent alternative to global energy death:

Intelligent design of the future world has already been done
Christopher Alexander and others have done so in Pattern Language

The defect of this work is its acceptance of the car

Intelligent design will make the car a costly option

Intelligent design will create car free cyber communities

The design of such communities has not even begun

Because people are unwilling to start from scratch

Intelligent design begins by outlining the

Basic components of the future cyber-community

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Just to be clear

ShortFormContent at Blogger: Why Beyond Pattern Language: "Quality of Life: The quality of life in our drug and consumer society is egregious. Parts of our society are dysfunctional. My proposal is for voluntary residence in cyber-communities where people assent to the same degree of rules that might be proposed by a co-op or even a landlord. The structure of a cyber-community and the actual structure of dwellings discourages all sorts of criminality."

In any community of 10,000 we now have policing and other security operations. A cyber community would have similar security. The only difference would be a safer environment and a healthier social structure with such features as being able to walk to work and school, to sit in one of many squares and park settings easily reached by foot, and to enjoy face to face contact with some confidence that you are on friendly turf. Car free cyber-communities are the wave of the future.




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Beyond Pattern Language: Cyber-cities evolve from ecumenopolis and pattern language

Pattern language is too diffuse a term these days to be of much use 

It  was originally way of looking at building things naturally with human beings in mind.

Today that the demands of commerce trump pattern language as originally promulgated

Now opposed to this person-ignoring commerce is the idea of the cyber-city

The cyber-city is a cluster of cyber-communities

A cyber-community is an intentional gathering pf persons who want 

to have all elements of a city within walking distance

A cyber-community is up to 10,000 persons living and working and being educated and healed within a square mile on no more than four levels

A cyber-city is a cluster of some ten cyber-communities

Cyber-cities are the human units of the global ecumenpolis

Out of the original pattern language and ecumenopolis the cyber city evolves

Ecumenopolis was the term used by the late C. A. Doxiadis to denote the coming urbanized world 

Today there is a confusion about what a city is 

People still believe that cities should be ranked by their greatness 

and that only such great cities can actually be real cities

The truth today is that any place can be a city

And should

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