Comment by adamjb
12 hours ago
>My one hope for AI, robotics, self driving cars, is that they can enable more people in cities to migrate back to rural places
Ah, the perennial dream of the technologist. Here's a Le Corbusier quote on the same theme from 100 years ago
> The cities will be part of the country; I shall live 30 miles from my office in one direction, under a pine tree; my secretary will live 30 miles away from it too, in the other direction, under another pine tree. We shall both have our own car.
Meanwhile the rest would be housed in "machines for living in".
If there is a hell, Le Corbusier is currently in it, eating the equivalent in cement to all the monstrosities he concocted.
> Ah, the perennial dream of the technologist. Here's a Le Corbusier quote on the same theme from 100 years ago
Except this time, the dream is actually real and cheaper than ever thanks to small EVs, batteries and solar power. 100 years ago it was limited to people with large estates who owned cars (and probably needed secretaries for their work).
These days it's more affordable than ever (except land/housing)
Some of us are living it. I plan to raise and slaughter cattle. Building a house now.