Hey, my old cell phone was based on Kirk’s communicator and lots of real technology was first conceived of by SF writers, so I guess a “Crowd Farm” was inevitable.
Michael Sorkin, a New York City-based architect and president of Terreform Inc., a non-profit organization focused on urban and environmental research and intervention, said the Crowd Farm idea may not be entirely new but fits within the laudable goal of producing non-polluting energy.
“Even more fundamental,” Sorkin said, “is to think about the design of cities from the perspective of using the body as the primary means of circulation and energy in the first place.” For example, he said, it’s probably more efficient to design walk-up apartments than to power an elevator based on other people striding up the sidewalk.
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