Abundance by Klein and Thompson - some thoughts
The initial story has elements that I adore - solar power, no coal, etc - and ones that I find a bit silly.
What its missing is many elements of urbanism that I want to see brought into the future.
Instead of self-driving cars and flying drone delivery - walkable neighborhoods.
Instead of AI-powered everything - empowering humans. They get halfway there with doing meta-science, but miss that we've made a lot of normal human activities illegal or undesirable.
I envision a future with: parks, restaurants, grocery stores, even YMCAs - all in walkable neighborhoods connected by mass transit to each other and to larger cities.
I've found this in Alexandria. I want more people to have access to that.
How do we get there?
May 7, 2025 13:20My conjecture: While there's some infill that can and should happen, if we want more places like our walkable corridors, then we should build more places like our walkable corridors.
The new townhouses and apartments near Potomac Yard metro are close, but are missing crucial commercial.
