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Terence Eden

What Terence Eden thinks about housing

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British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.

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  1. Our readingHousing people in cramped, windowless, noisy environments will drive them mad.

    Their wordsPutting people into a tin-can with no windows, blank walls, and an infernal background hum will drive them mad.

    ↗Book Review: How to Build a Space Station by Jonathan Morrison ★★★⯪☆shkspr.mobi 1st of 3 in this piece

  3. Our readingThe absence of autonomous drone-built housing on Earth is evidence that claims about robot-built space habitats are overhyped.

    robotics

    Their wordsThe fact that we don't have swarms of drones prefabbing houses in the relatively benign atmosphere of our planet should be evidence that maybe these claims aren't quite matched with reality.

    ↗Book Review: How to Build a Space Station by Jonathan Morrison ★★★⯪☆shkspr.mobi 2nd of 3 in this piece