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Re:Austin Startup Sees a Big Future for Little Homes by okyup on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:13AM (#11452865)
Not really new. I've seen many companies creating similar homes - it's been popular for a few years at least. The more interesting ones (in my opinion) are the ones optimized to be highly efficient for living off-the-grid and self-sustainably.

It's scary at the same time. Humans are getting smaller and smaller and more irrelevant and powerless and less individual. In the future we'll probably all live in little pods under some kind of gigantic government that controls our lives. Maybe we'll be happy, but we'll be shadows of the diverse and complex beings we once were.

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Re:Austin Startup Sees a Big Future for Little Homes by aaronbrethorst on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:15AM (#11452872) 

    Maybe we'll be happy, but we'll be shadows of the
    diverse and complex beings we once were
These "diverse and complex beings" you refer to. When did we fit the model you're thinking of, exactly?
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Re:Austin Startup Sees a Big Future for Little Homes by okyup on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:38AM (#11452945)
At all times up until present - constantly fluctuating, but generally trending upwards with the ascent of the evolution of life and of human beings. And perhaps it will continue for a long time yet. However, the majority of humans long to end it or at least to set it back.
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