16 Sep
2001
16 Sep
'01
12:29 p.m.
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
As were buildings above 5 stories in ancient Rome. Technology moves on. The question is not, "Can 250-story buildings be made safe?" The only question is "How can they be made safe?"
The question is: why should we bother? Tall buildings have intrinsically bad volume to crossection ratio, by definition. Both the static and the infrastructure is vulnerable, so the efforts would be far better spent by decentralizing the society. Monkeys want to see monkeys, fine. We have video projectors and AR avatars for that, and last time I looked most of the fiber was idle.