Sounds intriguing, if skeptical about cost, material strength, coordination, labor costs, longevity, etc.
> All-robotic car fleets are an obvious first step.
This is a truly big ask.
The rest of the essay makes a point similar to homesteading, where you pick an arbitrary lot you like and move your movable house to it. It has a section about land value taxes that offers a total non-solution to the supply-and-demand problem of land.
There are some good, insightful observations, and some wishful thinking; the essay even ends with the admission that it's more of a "wistful sigh" and the author is "nearly certain that none of that will actually happen". But intellectually rigorous analysis or proposal this is not.
Sounds intriguing, if skeptical about cost, material strength, coordination, labor costs, longevity, etc.
> All-robotic car fleets are an obvious first step.
This is a truly big ask.
The rest of the essay makes a point similar to homesteading, where you pick an arbitrary lot you like and move your movable house to it. It has a section about land value taxes that offers a total non-solution to the supply-and-demand problem of land.
There are some good, insightful observations, and some wishful thinking; the essay even ends with the admission that it's more of a "wistful sigh" and the author is "nearly certain that none of that will actually happen". But intellectually rigorous analysis or proposal this is not.