Kurzweil reckons that the next stage is that chips will be built in three dimensions.
The village is expected to be built in three years' time, ahead of the government's 2016 target, when it wants all new homes to be zero carbon.
The planned community center, perhaps 15 stories tall, would be built in three adjacent buildings two blocks north of ground zero, though one building, owned by Consolidated Edison, has yet to be sold.
The project — expected to be completed in 2010 at a cost of more than $100 million— will be built in three phases, allowing the Halls to continue to make their lush cabernet, merlot and sauvignon blanc using the existing facilities.
To prevent flooding during construction — the water table is only about 10 feet below street level — the passageway under West Street will be built in three phases, with barrier walls between each segment.
Under the Massachusetts law, which allows for three casinos to be built in three different regions, the state will pocket 25 percent of the gambling proceeds, plus 40 percent of the proceeds from a separate slot parlor that it will also allow.
