The lessons cannot be learned from inside a four-wheeler. Nature always designs for life. Designers, however, must choose between designing for life or death. It takes vision to design for life, but we are already beginning to feel the pinch of life without vision. The results are surprising.
Some students envision a highly technical world, more high-tech than today, of course.
Others see tremendous decline by humanity into drugs, alcohol and other means of escape. And still others envision a few survivors of Armageddon living as hunter-gatherers. Maybe, says Lyons, the time has come for designers to complete the same assignment.