We will create small, autonomous, self-re-balanced cities that will harvest crops and produce meat, exploiting and protecting sustainable forests. These cities will use minimum clean energy through not only solar and wind power, but water and gravity. Oil will be used for trains, planes and inter-urban cars. Pollution will be reduced to the minimum. A smaller number of industrial goods produced abroad will cross the world on wind powered trans-oceanic cargo ships: a new generation of sailing vessels will be created. On land, newly designed steam trains and light electric trains will be developed, and small lorries for inner-city transportation. These new cities must re-instate safe known analog technologies for educating children: it is proved that blackboard and chalk stimulates children's attention and creativity by co-ordination of mind, arms and hands, inter-acting with other students in a real room; digital communication can be harmful. We will stimulate proved technologies that promote the arts, observing, printing, building in harmony with nature. This means a functional return, rather than organisational, to "burgus" (commercial cities) from the early Renaissance, where empirical decisions enriched all classes and where freedom and law were the path, without frantic consumerism. These new cities are "communi" ("communitas" in Latin: to share a space), independent organisms living together (in a biological sense), and "common", a piece of open space for public (in the British law sense). People will agree to protect nature and exploit it rationally. I propose a combination of industrial patterns with limited electronic technology, basically not applied into Habitat or mobility unless absolutely necessary, but indeed in scientific and industrial research applications, like medicine. In day-to-day living, our extensions, in the anthropological sense -machines, tools, devices- will be mostly analog, affordable, recyclable and reasonable slow. We only need speed for space exploration... and for our thoughts. (page 3 of 5)

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