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Now House:
"What was present and physically demonstrated at Vancouver’s UN Habitat Conference/ Jericho Beach site was a mushroom group of swiftly foldable and movable geodesic domes and modernised Indian tepees produced, developed, and installed by a young world inspired to do something about its own future.
"Our World Game staff… put on an exhibit of four geodesic domes, which are now in manufacture by the Molded Fiberglass Company (MFG) of Ashtabula, Ohio… Their 14-foot, 5/8-sphere polyester fiberglass geodesic domes have alternate translucent or opaque fiberglass hexagon or pentagon panels. Their domes retail for $750.
“The World Game staff called their Exhibit the ‘Now House.’ This name derived from the fact that everything they had on display could be purchased right now from industrial mass production sources. All labor of their production occurred under the controlled environment-conditioning of factories: no rain, cold, heat, snow, ice, or wind. The MFG domes had no more need for old building technology than has the opening of an umbrella–a mobile, environment-controlling”
