I'm serenely convinced that we are heading into what will amount to a 'time out' from technological progress as we know it.
Our twenty-first century economy may focus on agriculture, not information.
I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.
It's self-evident that we are going to have permanent problems with oil and gasoline and the prime resources that are needed to run the American suburbs. And we're just not going to be able to run them. You know, it's just unfortunate, it's tragic, but it's the truth.
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.
I think water transport will see a revival. However, we're not going to replay the 20th century. The industrial city of that era will not be revived. Our cities are going to contract. Many of them will contract as a whole but densify at their core.
