Good writing is true. Writing is a suspension of life in order to re-create life. We are in the process of becoming a World in which marriage is temporary rather than permanent, in which family arrangements are diverse and colorful, in which same gender couples are acceptable parents and retirees are starting to raise children—such a World is vastly different from the traditional past. All youth were once expected to find life-long partners. In the World we are becoming, being single is no crime. No longer are couples forced to remain imprisoned, as many were in the past, in marriages that had turned rancid. Divorce has been made easier to arrange, so long as responsible provision is made for children. In fact, the very introduction of professional parenthood is making the possibilities of divorce more conducive to mental and physical health because adults can discharge their parental responsibilities without necessarily remaining in a cage of a hateful marriage. With this powerful external pressure removed, those who stay together are those who wish to stay together, those for whom marriage is actively fulfilling—those, in short, who are in love. The family cycle has been one of the sanity-preserving constants in human existence. However, this cycle is changing. #RandolphHarris 1 of 10

When the “mother” can compress the process of birth into a brief visit to an embryo emporium, when by transferring embryos from womb to womb we can destroy even the ancient certainty that childbearing took nine months, children will grow up into a World in which the family cycle, once so smooth and sure, will be jerkily arhythmic. Another crucial stabilizer will have been removed from the wreckage of the traditional order, another pillar of sanity broken. We have it in our power to shape change. We may choose one future over another. We cannot, however, maintain the past. In our family forms, as in our economics, science, technology and social relationships, we shall be forced to deal with the new. The Super-age of information Revolution will liberate humans from many of the barbarisms that grew out of the restrictive, relatively choiceless family patterns of the past and present. It will offer to each a degree of freedom hitherto unknow. However, it will exact a steep price for that freedom. As we hurtle into tomorrow, millions of ordinary men and women will face emotion-packed options so unfamiliar, so untested, that past experience will offer little clue to wisdom. In their family ties, as in all other aspects of their lives, they will be compelled to cope not merely with transience, but with the added problem of novelty as well. #RandolphHarris 2 of 10

In such an environment, fast-changing and unfamiliar, we are forced, as we wend our way through life, to make our personal choices from a diverse array of options. And it is to the third central characteristic of tomorrow, diversity, that we must now turn. For it is the final convergence of these three factors—transience, novelty and diversity—that sets the stage for the historic crisis of adaptation that is the subject of this paper: future shock. The Super-age of information Revolution will consign to the archives of ignorance most of what we now believe about democracy and the future of human choice. Today in techno-societies there is an almost ironclad consensus about of freedom. Maximum individual choice is regarded as the democratic ideal. Yet most writers predict that we shall move further and further from this ideal. They conjure up a dark vision of the future, in which people appear as mindless consumer-creatures, surrounded by standardized goods, educated in standardized schools, fed a diet of standardized mass culture, and forced to adopt standardized styles of life. Choice was a real possibility for humans. By contrast, today, the human being is not as much an agent of choice. And, hopefully in the future, humans will not be confined to the role of a recording device. #RandolphHarris 3 of 10

If people are robbed of their choice, they will be acted upon, not active. One will live, in a totalitarian state run by a velvet-gloved Gestapo and Sicherheitspolizei. This same theme—the loss of choice—is repeated by hippie gurus to Supreme Court justices, tabloid editorialists and existentialist philosophers. Put in its simplest form, this Theory of Vanishing Choice rests on a crude syllogism: Science and technology have fostered standardization. Science and technology will advance, making the future even more standardized than the present. Ergo: Humans will progressively lose their freedom of choice. If instead of blindly accepting this syllogism, we stop to analyze it, however, we make an extraordinary discovery. For not only is the logic itself faulty, the entire idea is premised on sheer factual ignorance about the nature, the meaning and the direction of the Super-age of information Revolution. Ironically, the people of the future may suffer not from an absence of choice, but from a paralyzing surfeit of it. They may turn out to be victims of that peculiarly super-industrial dilemma: overchoice. It is a lot like the Vanishing dimensions theory, which suggests that systems with higher energy (more choices) have smaller number of dimensions (choices). #RandolphHarris 4 of 10

There could have been fewer choices in the past, but the number of products has increased so vastly that more producers are having to pack a variety of similar products into smaller spaces that is in actually reducing the variety of their inventory, which is restricting the consumers freedom. So, the only way to accommodate all the products on the market is by making stores larger, but it also overwhelms the consumer and makes competition for brands so fierce that only the biggest and must successful brands will succeed, so it will actually end up restrict freedoms to only certain producers and brands, and we will see fewer independent and unique choices. No person traveling across Europe or the United States of America can fail to be impressed by the architectural similarity of one gas station or airport to another. Any one thirsting for a soft drink will find one bottle of Coca-Cola to be almost identical with the next. Clearly a consequence of mass production techniques, the uniformity of certain aspects of our physical environment has long outraged intellectuals. Some decry the Hiltonization of our hotels; others charge that we are homogenizing the entire human race. Certainly, it would be difficult to deny that industrialism has had a leveling effect. Our ability to produce millions of nearly identical units is the crowing achievement of the industrial age. #RandolphHarris 5 of 10

Thus, when intellectuals bewail the sameness of our material goods, they accurately reflected that state of affairs under industrialism. However, industrialism marked such a high period of success because it started when America will still a developing nation and people were escaping poverty. So, suburban communities were all the homes were nice, with well-manicured green lawns and everyone own a new Cadillac, Chevy, Buick of Ford sedan make people feel comfortable because it reflected the American Dream and an end of poverty. In the past, the American motorist took one’s pick of either “regular” or “premium.” Today one drives up to a gasoline station pump and is asked to choose from among eight different blends and mixes, but with more cars moving to electric technology, it will reduce the options and styles of car people will be able to buy. Notice most electric cars have fewer innovative changes in the body style over their lifetime? The number of different soaps and detergent on the American grocery shelf has increased from sixty-five to 200; frozen foods from 121 to 350; baking mixes and flours from eighty-four to 200. Even the variety of pet foods increased from fifty-eight to eighty-one. So we will see only the best selling items on the store shelf, which will actually decrease the variety, unless a certain market has a preference for a different product. #RandolphHarris 6 of 10

One major company, Corn Products, produces a pancake syrup called Karo. Instead of offering the same product nationally, however, it sells two different viscosities, having found that Pennsylvanians, for some regional reason, prefer their syrup thicker than other Americans. In the field of office décor and furniture, the same process is at work. There are ten times the new styles and colours there were a decade ago. Every architect wants one’s own shade of green. Companies, in other words, are discovering wide variations in consumer wants and are adapting their production lines to accommodate them. Two economic factors encourage this trend: first, consumers have more money to lavish on their specialized wants; second, and even more important, as technology becomes more sophisticated, the cost of introducing variations declines. However, people are noticing more and more people like the same things because they want to blend in and be accepted and they also want to appeal to the masses for resale value of their homes and cars, personalities and clothes, so they may avoid things the are unique and particular. Primitive technology, it seems, may have allowed for more variety, and modern technology, with transience is leading to more standardization because people know they may have to move at anytime for their career, so they want to make safe choices that others will also like. #RandolphHarris 7 of 10

It also many seem like in the past there was more variety, but in America, for example, we are looking at about 200 years of architectural manufacturing, and over certain eras, particular styles of architecture were mass produced, like during the 18^th and 19^th century, Queen Anne architecture was popular, then with the birth of the suburbs in the 1950s, ranch style homes and farm houses became more popular. So, we are looking at the past and seeing timelines of mass-produced items and believe there was more variety, and with the age of these style increasing, they become more unique and have a cult following. Automation, in a sense, is leading to a path of endless, blinding, mind-numbing diversity that we will only see when we look back. However, many engineers and business experts foresee the day when true diversity will cost no more than uniformity. Yet in the meanwhile, by wiping out thousands of little “mom and pop” businesses, we have without a doubt contributed to uniformity in the architectural environment. Still, the array of goods corporate stores provide for the consumer is incomparably more diverse than any corner store could afford to stock. Thus at the very moment that the economic conditions are encouraging architectural and product sameness they are also fostering gastronomic diversity. This lead many corporations and individuals to see that the future is truly a paradox. #RandolphHarris 8 of 10

However, one has to also keep into mind that architectural variety is also strangled by local building codes and conservative trade unions. With more advanced technology, the more cost effective it is to introduce variation in output. We can safely predict, therefore, that when the construction industry catches up with manufacture in technological sophistication gas stations, airports, houses, and hotels, as well as supermarkets, will stop looking as if they had been poured from the same mould. Uniformity will give way to diversity, and we are actually starting to see this in high end boutique housing developments. Certain neighbourhoods are going for more of a Victorian style, others are requesting communities with six different architectural styles, but we are seeing others were people like the predictability of all the houses being the same height and elevation. Because of the desire for diversity, Watergate East, in Washington, DC, which is a Midcentury Modern 14-story, 240-unit historic condominium building that is considered an architectural gem, was produced between 1964 and 1978 at a cost of $78,000,000.00 by Societa Generale Immobilare (SGI). It is a computer-designed apartment house by Italian architect Luigi Moretti. Of the 240 apartments, 167 have different floor pans. And there are no continuous straight lines in the building anywhere. #RandolphHarris 9 of 10

The building was modernized in 2019, and features large sunlit lobbies with full-height windows which reflects the architect’s vision of bring the outside inside. As with the lobbies, the recently renovated landscaped yards continue the original plan of noted landscape architect Boris Timchenko—offering views from ground-level walkways and cantilevered balconies looking down onto the green roof and open spaces, and there are flowering trees, and vibrant profusions of seasonal colour. The terraces are smoke free and some reach above the trees where residences can enjoy the foggy mornings. I raise my hands in prayer to God, to Him I pray, Lord of the Earth. He who was the first of any to die, the first of any to be reborn. He who raises with the Sun each day and sets with it each night. Out of my darkness and death, I call and pray to you, Lord of All. Out of my needs, I send my voice with honour and longing, in hope of intercession. Please grant me my prayer, Mighty One, you who know what it is to suffer. Please grant me my prayer, First Born Son of God, you who are the great giver. May it be Thy will, O Lord our God and God of our father, to grant our portion in Thy Holy Bible, and may the Temple be rebuilt in our day. There we will serve Thee with awe as in the days of old. O Lord, please open Thou my lips and my mouth shall declare Thy Praise. #RandolphHarris 10 of 10

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