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  Karen Bridges

  6 years ago

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  "You've created a monster!"(c)

  Seriously, though. That thing has a huge potential to kill the little mobility left in the western population.

  It's really conventient. Too convenient for the good of humankind lol. And it would totally sell.

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  George Mokray

  6 years ago

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  Many of your automobile ideas could be applied to tiny houses too.

  
  

  Buster Keaton is my favorite engineer - Electric House is only the prime example and, I like to think, a response to Ford and Edison's announcement of their doomed autonomous electric house and transportation system in 1914.

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    Steven Johnson

    George Mokray

    6 years ago

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    George: As you can guess, I am a huge fan of the Tiny House movement, but also of many related movements including the Van Living movement. Aside from Core77, my favorite website is Treehugger dot com. I like to keep up by checking in on what is new. The pace of innovation is accelerating, so my own odd product ideas are either a) already being fulfilled and produced by others, or b) coming to seem quaint and outmoded. As you note, innovation works in spurts with stunning futuristic ideas emerging from far thinkers–Jules Verne imagined color TVs in homes–while resistance to new ideas was the usual pattern. Said differently, the future concept might be imagined early on, but could usually not be implemented until certain missing pieces in technology and materials became available. The pace now is breathtaking!

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