This technology makes living far away from Walmart a much more palatable experience. Combined with self-sustaining energy sources like solar panels, it could be

This technology makes living far away from Walmart a much more palatable experience. Combined with self-sustaining energy sources like solar panels, it could be the basis for a different urban configuration that doesn't depend on direct access to centralized distribution networks. In the medium term I can see "high-tech hippie" communes of young educated hipsters moving to the outskirts of cities, living in plastic domes, telecommuting, composting their waste and 3D printing parts for their maker-culture activities. If this catches on, this could be the basis for less dense cities.