sonadavinci

Don't believe everything you see on UTube...

Hey, frogs and chameleons find that technique pretty useful too.

I have an idea who's time has come: How about WE figure out how to do this more efficiently and ship the houses to THEM? Seriously, withoug getting dwelling on the whole globalization subject and who it has benefitted (and who it has not), I'd like to see the US pioneering technology in SOMETHING again. We're already behind Europe and China on some green power generation technologies, but it's not too late to forge ahead again. We can do the same with modular home technology, and perhaps even implement it all the way through the efficient manufacturing of integrated building components. I'm sure other nations can build warships pretty well too, but we build our own here anyway and have therefore become very good at it, - to the point where we can sell them abroad. We can do the same with building components.

As for eliminating Architects in the process: Who will design these houses? Interior Designers? And the need to knit together the multiple building codes that modular homes must satisfy will be done by____? Architects can make it meet the codes, fit the customer's needs, AND look good doing it. I don't know who else will be qualified enough to do so. (Please don't tell me that contractors will, - that's how we got a nation full of bloated McMansions in the first place).

I'm extremely enthused about the possibilities, but apprehensive that there are still so many people stuck in selfish mindsets, hoping to cling to the past just a little longer, mocking and undermining all efforts to improve the way we do things. They don't care if large numbers of people don't have housing, - that's not their problem. They don't care to do anything more efficiently unless either the government makes it unavailable or the cost goes through the roof (even then, some will still pay it). Since the price changeover takes time, they will procrastinate until there is no other option. You know, it's the same with bad teeth, - there are still a lot of people who only go to the dentist when they're ready to have them pulled.

So I say, bring on all the change now. The sooner we get on with it, the sooner we'll all feel some benefit.