Sublime

What would it mean to break out of the Infrastructure Cult and make capital investments that had a real return on investment? First and foremost, it would require us to spend public money on infrastructure projects that covered their own costs, not only today but indefinitely into the future.

Materials are heavy and should stay local. Ideas and people are light and are global.’ This deceptively simple axiom – materials are heavy, ideas are light – suggests that scale is achieved not by exporting materials […] but by exporting the principles of bioregional design instead. […]

“continue” in some deeply reformed way? Economist Peter Frase lays out four possible futures in his appropriately titled 2016 book Four Futures.

The calls for ‘de-growth’ (Assadourian, 2012), post-growth economics (Post Growth Institute, 2015), prosperity without growth (Jackson, 2011), and a ‘steady state economy’ (Daly, 2009) have become louder and have found a much wider audience in recent years.

Polis is a prominent example of what leading ⿻ technologists Aviv Ovadya and Luke Thorburn call "collective response systems" and "bridging systems" and others call "wikisurveys".