We can begin to see now how totally a chi-centered world changes every facet of our surroundings and our lives. Those changes run deep inside us and our world, and are already in motion. Many things are likely to be as striking in their absence as in their presence.
Sustainability calls for the design principles of energetics of place.
It is up to us to integrate them as a touchstone and core to our design arts to give them the wholeness and depth needed to express and manifest these new visions and values. Being hypnotized by mobility and its ubiquitous freeways, automobiles, and ceaseless aircraft takeoffs and landings will be a thing of the past. This is in part because of the depletion of cheap fossil fuels which underlie current mobility. But more importantly, it will be a response to a realization that mobility makes all places alike, destroying its own value. Instead of being segregated as today, we will find an intimate interweaving of work place, living place, leisure and learning - eliminating much of today's demand for daily mobility.