I met Ernest Callenbach back in the 1970s when he stopped by Cerro Gordo to see the new town we were building.
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Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is a utopian novel by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the counterculture and the green movement in the 1970s and thereafter. The author himself claimed that the society he depicted in the book is not a true utopia (in the sense of a perfect society), but, while guided by societal intentions and values, was imperfect and in-process.[1]
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There've been a few audio books, but no Hollyweird blockbuster based on it. Who holds the rights?
I see opportunity in a manga or video game adaptation or rip-off. Here're the themes one could work in:
- The self-climbing wizard's tower, a three-story pod that rises atop a cylinder of pick-and-place printed rock and extruded mortar. Radial rollers let it spin to compress the most recent layer.
- The semisubmersible air-curtained and Templated icicle that is towed by longboat and winched ashore into a dry pond.
- A Peristaltic_pump comprised of wooden planetary rollers and hemp fabric hoses 2-3ft in diameter, ganged in series and wind powered.
- And of course the 3D printed mud bubble houses. Ceramic clay amended with flash graphene
All watched over (according to Richard Brautigan) by machines of loving grace.