When you refer to empty land that surrounds cities, are you talking about one of the most underappreciated assets a city could have which is arable land in close proximity to the population?
Arable land may become a valuable economic engine for many cities as peak oil and climate change realities break our current modes of distribution.
Building more roads and tacky exurban houses destroys this valuable land we all may need, and only a few benefit from it (and everyone will pay more in taxes). Think about it.
You can't seem to envision anything but a world of cars, mass consumption and long supply chains we currently rely on.
Thinking has to change, lifestyles have to change. People must become more resilient and do business locally. This isn't optional. It's the imminent economic and ecological reality.
The Google car is a truly clueless idea with no imagination. We don't need automated cars, what we need as a society is to reduce our dependence on cars.
Want to stop car crashes and reduce fatalities? It's dirt simple. Stop driving cars.
I agree linkbait lists are garbage, but the writing is awful and full of profanities, and the author goes on and on about the linkbait content he supposedly despises (complete with pictures).
I was going to say it all comes off as gradeschool, but little kids have it much more together.
Goodhearted? The guy is a bazillionaire. You'll be good hearted too when you have so much money that no amount given away is a sacrifice anymore.
FYI: You can't really tell if someone is genuinely goodhearted by watching them being interviewed by Charie Rose. It's what they do when they know no one is looking that will reveal the true nature of a man.