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Human Unsettlement:
"obsolete. World War II took humanity’s technology into the sky and deep into the ocean and eventually into outer space. These latter arts required an enormous step-up in doing more with less in order to make all logistics flyable, rocketable, or electromagnetically transmittable.
"Subsequent to World War II it was found that all the metals of all kinds involved in the general technology of humanity were being consistently melted out of their old use forms on an average of every 22 years and became reemployed with an interim gained know-how to accomplish a far higher performance per pound-, erg-, and hour-technology for many times the number of humans served on the previous round. Japan became one of the world’s greatest industrial countries without any mines for they employed only recirculating scrap. The 50-years-earlier-doomed building arts prototyped by yesterday’s fortresses became clearly obsolete as ways for humanity to cope with ever increasingly new environmental confrontations and the automobile’s uprooting of theretofore exclusively-locally-living humans.
“In pre-automobile 1900 USA cities and factory towns, only the rich owned their houses. There were official fall and”
