The living rocks cooled,
The wriggling fish washed ashore,
The birds and lizards fell
victim to a more fiery roar–
And so will mankind,
being once supreme,
be reduced to apes
by the machine.
Consider this a preamble to an upcoming article on verticality. A couple of cool articles:
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/rich-doyle-2
http://spacetimearchitecture.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/morphing-scale-to-imagine-habitation/