City planning was implemented since ancient civilization. However many cultures built their towns in an amorphous fashion much like the wandering mind.
He had once heard of people who would sit in one place
for years. Not the Saddhus of India who would sit in one place with
a limb hanging emulating a Hindu God. These ones were of the modern
world. They would sleep, eat, work, play in one room. Cooked food
could be delivered to this room. They did not need to graze their
animals as they did not own any. They used numbered devices to know
when to begin and start a task as they used artificial light instead
of the sun. It could always be daytime for them.
They visited family and friends less and less as they had machines
to communicate over the air with their voice or by writing in communication
boxes. Their minds would move from place to place but their bodies
remained stationary. He wondered which breed traveled further....>
