We have to do commerce differently because the WalMart system of big box chain retail will soon die. This means rebuilding local main street economies (networks of local economic interdependency).

Two decades from now, I doubt that the home building industry, so called, will even exist as we have known it.

If the Internet exists at all in the future, it will be on a much-reduced scale from what we enjoy today, and all the activities of everyday life are not going to reside on it.

For instance, the most common type of "affordable housing" in the world comes in the form of apartments over stores.

Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

The suburban cycle which began a hundred years ago is nearly over. We are in for a period of contraction and economic hardship.