This will give rich economies time to adjust to new patterns of work, and should keep the politics of change manageable.
Technology has made calories bountiful, cheap, and easy to consume, while new patterns of work, residence, mobility, and child rearing have squeezed the time that we are able or willing to commit to family or communal meals.
This is not some academic pseudo-navel gazing exercise, but rather a considered debate that revolves around planning, design, technology, the impact of new infrastructure and new patterns of living and working, and above all the digital dynamics that are affecting every aspect of our present and future.
So, how can we cultivate new patterns of thinking and ways of working together that allow us to embrace change?
"Active jobs"—in situations where both demand and control are simultaneously high are related to active attitudes and the development of new patterns of behavior, both at work and outside.
Meanwhile, people will be saving money, working out new patterns of cooperation with neighbors and friends, and becoming a constituency for savings, for serious energy reductions.
This requires working in partnership overcoming resistance and creating new patterns of collaboration.
As did species with new patterns of resistance.
Fortunes were made, forming new patterns of consumption.
California's new patterns of college admissions reflect those inequities.
