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Well that's a good point and the question you asked, the first question you asked was
what would society look like if all of this were to occur. And my answer is not very different.
Nobody would notice the difference. One of the basic tenets of universal design, at least
from my perspective is you don't see it. It's not obvious. Give you an example. The Chicago
public schools held a design competition 3 or 4 years ago for a couple of schools and
this design competition went all the way across the country. And one of the components of
the design competition was that these schools should be designed in a universal way. A number
of the finalists had ramps everywhere. These schools had ramps to the roof. They had, one
of them the entire corridor, the main corridor of the school was a ramp. So every 30 feet
there was a classroom, there was a leveled area there was a door you go up. Everywhere
there were ramps. That's not universal design, universal design is not ramps. It is because
ramps are some of the most difficult ways to change levels. If I in a utopian way wanted
to design an environment it wouldn't have ramps. It wouldn't have level changes there
would be lifts and elevators that would change the levels for me. You wouldn't notice any
difference that would be my goal. Is it you wouldn't notice. You don't notice when a step
isn't present. You notice when a step is present. So the ideal environment isn't flat. A lot
of people are worried that if we had the ideal environment it would be a flat environment.
It's not flat. Nobody wants flat environments. But I don't think you would notice any change.
I think we could do this without there being noticeable change.