(((The future is already here, it's just not well distributed outside of gentrified silos in Baltimore.)))
Hi Bruce, longtime listener, first time caller ...
Re: your line in this post:
http://blog.wired.com/sterling/2008/08/theyre-like-soc.html
about empty, bridged silos inhabited by the creative class, - you might be interested in a building here in Baltimore called Silo Point, which is pretty much exaclty that (at least to hear their sales literature tell it). It's a former Archer Daniels Midland Grain elevator that's been turned into condos, with, yes, bridges!
The obligatory condo website is here:
http://www.silopoint.com/home.html
(warning: that page is full of flash and real estate jargon, it will resize your browser window or worse). (((Let the reader beware.)))
I've got no connection to the project other than thinking it's cool, a friend of mine works at the architecture firm that desgined the reconstruction, and he's got me in there a few times for tours. Your post made me want to grab all my flickr photos of it together in a set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sevensixfive/sets/72157607025822367/
(((Social software is hard to beat, isn't it?)))
It's definitely a kind of "future is built on the ruins of the unsustainable" thing, but with the twist that the building was actually still partially in use as a grain elevator when it was sold. (((At least the locals know where they're getting their granola in the morning.)))
Anyway, just a throwaway line about the silos, I know, but I love it when the jargon turns real!
Keep Bloggin'
-Fred Scharmen
(((So, Fred, if you think the silos are something, check out what they're doing to dead malls.)))
http://www.worldchanging.com/local/seattle/archives/008250.html
