*Whenever appropriate technology zealots start whippin' it with their neat-o design for the bottom billion, I always contemplate the fate of the wealthy ten percent when they too are shovelled into those.
*Like, say, "geoengineers." Lotta that design-fiction going on right now. Okay, if things get bad enough that they really require tinfoil hats on the North Pole, they you, yes YOU, are gonna be living in a cardboard house. Like this one.
*Furthermore, you'll be grateful that your "informal housing" is that chic and that well thought-through.
http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/Design/global-village-shelter
*This Other 90 thing from Cooper-Hewitt is truly Teh Aw3some. Just imagine all these structures, objects and services used by former Wall Street brokers. You have got a science fiction flick there fit to beat the band. It's like a Warren Ellis web comic waiting to be written.
