Comments on: Future of Housing http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/ This is the blog of Glen Hiemstra, futurist speaker, keynote speaker, futurist consultant, and founder of futurist.com Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:46:31 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Glen Hiemstra http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/comment-page-1/#comment-164596 Glen Hiemstra Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:08:50 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/#comment-164596 Dan, thanks for the comment this week. It is useful to remember how far we have come in a mere 100 years. Dan, thanks for the comment this week. It is useful to remember how far we have come in a mere 100 years.

]]> By: Dan http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/comment-page-1/#comment-164448 Dan Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:26:21 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/#comment-164448 Housing will have to get smaller as population increases. but I don't think it will happen anytime soon. Most people aren't willing to give up indulgence of "big things". the pretenders will fight tooth and nail to live beyond their means. successful people will continue to compete for sucess to maintain this lifestyle. the result of this is that more and more people will be left out and the gap between and rich and poor may continue to widen. On the other hand, it's also exciting to think about the exponential growth of technological developments in develop countries around the world. developments in nanotechnologies may soon make health care afordable for everyone and change the way we live, work, communicate, etc... housing on floating islands may help alleviate over crowding. Bioengineered rice can be grown anywhere and help prevent world hunger. Solar paint which can harness sun produce power cheaply and paint on buildings. Coastal desalination plants can help deal with fresh water shortages. Of course, most of these are not yet available but knowing the fact that the researches are ongoing, as we speak, around the world makes it exciting. We've come so far already after a hundred years after the Wright brothers started dreaming about building a flying machine. Housing will have to get smaller as population increases. but I don’t think it will happen anytime soon. Most people aren’t willing to give up indulgence of “big things”. the pretenders will fight tooth and nail to live beyond their means. successful people will continue to compete for sucess to maintain this lifestyle. the result of this is that more and more people will be left out and the gap between and rich and poor may continue to widen. On the other hand, it’s also exciting to think about the exponential growth of technological developments in develop countries around the world. developments in nanotechnologies may soon make health care afordable for everyone and change the way we live, work, communicate, etc… housing on floating islands may help alleviate over crowding. Bioengineered rice can be grown anywhere and help prevent world hunger. Solar paint which can harness sun produce power cheaply and paint on buildings. Coastal desalination plants can help deal with fresh water shortages. Of course, most of these are not yet available but knowing the fact that the researches are ongoing, as we speak, around the world makes it exciting. We’ve come so far already after a hundred years after the Wright brothers started dreaming about building a flying machine.

]]> By: David Otiende http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/comment-page-1/#comment-142778 David Otiende Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:37:23 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/#comment-142778 Dear people The future is bright as all can agree. The financial situation is undergoing a revolution. What may happen in the near future is the need of the word to look forward to a type of a savior to rescue them from the present situatrion. For there to be clear new finacial word there will be need for the word to adopt to one currency but this currency will not need to be tangible thanks for the degital technology. The person who will come up with this theory and which will be put to practice will actually be the saviour of the world financial system .The example of this is the Marshial plan performed by the American government to rescue Europe out of the depression after the world wars. This time around it is the chance of Europe to pay back in kind. Euro will be the currency of the time but will only be in cerculation in digital form Thanks to the tchnology. this new system will rid the world of: 1. Dictators 2. Terrorist 3. Cheats 5. Gamplers 6. Arms race For any transaction will be monitored by banks' remote control and approve only right transactions. This future super financil system will however be abused due to man's sin and eventually will fall in tae hands of afew people who will declare themselves god. This will happen because humanity will start worshiping this supereconomic system and God will not allow this for He is the only one who has the sole previlege of Saving mankind and who should be worshiped through the one man he has sent that all should call upon for salvation; the man JESUS CHRIST Dear people

The future is bright as all can agree. The financial situation is undergoing a revolution. What may happen in the near future is the need of the word to look forward to a type of a savior to rescue them from the present situatrion. For there to be clear new finacial word there will be need for the word to adopt to one currency but this currency will not need to be tangible thanks for the degital technology. The person who will come up with this theory and which will be put to practice will actually be the saviour of the world financial system .The example of this is the Marshial plan performed by the American government to rescue Europe out of the depression after the world wars. This time around it is the chance of Europe to pay back in kind. Euro will be the currency of the time but will only be in cerculation in digital form Thanks to the tchnology. this new system will rid the world of:
1. Dictators
2. Terrorist
3. Cheats
5. Gamplers
6. Arms race
For any transaction will be monitored by banks’ remote control and approve only right transactions.
This future super financil system will however be abused due to man’s sin and eventually will fall in tae hands of afew people who will declare themselves god. This will happen because humanity will start worshiping this supereconomic system and God will not allow this for He is the only one who has the sole previlege of Saving mankind and who should be worshiped through the one man he has sent that all should call upon for salvation; the man JESUS CHRIST

]]> By: Rosa http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/comment-page-1/#comment-84152 Rosa Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:08:10 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/#comment-84152 Dear Glen, I wouldn't say that I have wisdom to share, but a story that may appeal to your passion. My grandmother died in the Spring--but not too long after a development company was trying to buy her property and many others in her older, modest neighborhood. A widow not too many years after moving in with her World War II Vet husband, she raised three children and lived there over fifty five years. Other than social security and some support from her children, my grandma had neither a stone nor a slingshot to sleigh this waking giant. Her house her only asset--but not even fully given her familial help, she could not convince all of her children to keep the house. With a giant crushing the pocketbooks and spirits of her family, my grandmother lost the will to live. My grandmother no longer has to deal with these pressures. However, her 87-year-old next door neighbor and others like her do! Unfortunately, as you said, this other widow is even more ill-equipped to face the possibility that she may get kicked out of her house with a much lower settlement. At this point, she can't afford that alternative. If money was ever the root of all evil, it sure is today! Not only are we living beyond our means as a society. Red, Blue, Purple and Green Americans alike are neglecting the weakest members of society in the subtlest ways. We are not listening to one another. We are listening to our iPods and the sound of our own voices. I hope it does not get to the point where I no longer question my own priorities. Thanks for writing the article! I am going to share it with my family. Most sincerely, Rosa Dear Glen,

I wouldn’t say that I have wisdom to share, but a story that may appeal to your passion.

My grandmother died in the Spring–but not too long after a development company was trying to buy her property and many others in her older, modest neighborhood. A widow not too many years after moving in with her World War II Vet husband, she raised three children and lived there over fifty five years. Other than social security and some support from her children, my grandma had neither a stone nor a slingshot to sleigh this waking giant. Her house her only asset–but not even fully given her familial help, she could not convince all of her children to keep the house. With a giant crushing the pocketbooks and spirits of her family, my grandmother lost the will to live.

My grandmother no longer has to deal with these pressures. However, her 87-year-old next door neighbor and others like her do! Unfortunately, as you said, this other widow is even more ill-equipped to face the possibility that she may get kicked out of her house with a much lower settlement. At this point, she can’t afford that alternative.

If money was ever the root of all evil, it sure is today! Not only are we living beyond our means as a society. Red, Blue, Purple and Green Americans alike are neglecting the weakest members of society in the subtlest ways. We are not listening to one another. We are listening to our iPods and the sound of our own voices. I hope it does not get to the point where I no longer question my own priorities.

Thanks for writing the article! I am going to share it with my family.

Most sincerely,
Rosa

]]> By: Future of Wall Street - A futurist perspective at Futurist.com http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/comment-page-1/#comment-80678 Future of Wall Street - A futurist perspective at Futurist.com Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:29:25 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/#comment-80678 [...] financial instruments. Finally, the mortgage problem is also the ultimate expression of a cultural trend in which we have valued gluttony over frugality, a lesson that people apparently have to re-learn on [...] [...] financial instruments. Finally, the mortgage problem is also the ultimate expression of a cultural trend in which we have valued gluttony over frugality, a lesson that people apparently have to re-learn on [...]

]]> By: Future of Sustainable Affordable Housing - A Prototype at Futurist.com http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/comment-page-1/#comment-60933 Future of Sustainable Affordable Housing - A Prototype at Futurist.com Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:16:22 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/#comment-60933 [...] future of housing in the United States, and the world, is one of the most important issues we face. In the U.S. [...] [...] future of housing in the United States, and the world, is one of the most important issues we face. In the U.S. [...]

]]> By: Wedding Cars http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/comment-page-1/#comment-20852 Wedding Cars Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:49:28 +0000 http://www.futurist.com/2007/09/10/future-of-housing/#comment-20852 What we need in the UK, where increasingly we build on flood plains, is houses that float. I kid thee not, they do this in Holland these days. In Holland, they know beyond any doubt they will flood so they realistically prepare for it. Here our politicians build any old dwelling any old where safe in the knowledge that by the time any shit hits any fans they'll be retired or promoted, promoted to Prime Minister in one obvious case. Here we need mobile housing as a matter of course for the lower-paid too. We have the problem, unaddressed by anyone, that the lower-paid, after investing all their capital in their property, find themselves unable to move to new areas when work dries up as their property cannot itself be moved, being plumbed into the landscape, and cannot be sold, as work drying up in that area is why they need to move in the first place. They can't afford to move to any new areas of low-paid employment, and they can't realistically be expected to find work in an area where the work has gone from, so they exist on benefits. If they had mobile homes, they could move them relatively cheaply, so it would be economically feasible to move to new areas of employment as they develop. I also see the re-emergence of tribe cultures as houses get to be so expensive they have to be lived in by groups of people who will from necessity become tribal cultures. I don't have to explain the why of that, do I? BB What we need in the UK, where increasingly we build on flood plains, is houses that float. I kid thee not, they do this in Holland these days. In Holland, they know beyond any doubt they will flood so they realistically prepare for it. Here our politicians build any old dwelling any old where safe in the knowledge that by the time any shit hits any fans they’ll be retired or promoted, promoted to Prime Minister in one obvious case.

Here we need mobile housing as a matter of course for the lower-paid too. We have the problem, unaddressed by anyone, that the lower-paid, after investing all their capital in their property, find themselves unable to move to new areas when work dries up as their property cannot itself be moved, being plumbed into the landscape, and cannot be sold, as work drying up in that area is why they need to move in the first place. They can’t afford to move to any new areas of low-paid employment, and they can’t realistically be expected to find work in an area where the work has gone from, so they exist on benefits. If they had mobile homes, they could move them relatively cheaply, so it would be economically feasible to move to new areas of employment as they develop.

I also see the re-emergence of tribe cultures as houses get to be so expensive they have to be lived in by groups of people who will from necessity become tribal cultures. I don’t have to explain the why of that, do I?

BB

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