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To: Worswick who wrote (3113)	4/14/1998 9:53:00 AM
From: see clearly now	Respond to of 9980

Now we are getting somewhere?. I think they are the technologies that facilitate a "coming home" centered lifestyle. (apparently 23% of US workers work part time or full time at home..does not include home makingand child rearing which is arguably the most important activity we do). So what technologies facilitate this?...those that are converging towards both the free (cheap) and open society...communications especially the net; cogeneration of different types of energy at the point of need and soon solar/hydrogen....which will make both the home and larger building more like a leaf's role as part of a tree..the producer of energy (its already happening). ..Just imagine the beneficial impact on the overall environment and qulaity of life as we become home centred once again (the industrial age was in my understanding of the process an aberation) ? ..It is so easy now to not only sleep at home but to work, learn , and be relatively self sufficient in recreation and cultural activities...with the choice to go out to work, meet people and to participate in activites as compared to the necessity to be in three or four places (and more sometimes) in one day. Food for thought...Arni Ps: have been doing it since 1972..as an architect with a (many times) global practice.