“Throughout history and barely one and a half century ago -- before robots and machines took over our modest tasks with a minimum energy cost-- none of the phenomena that today shake mankind and inexorably rule each and every person --men and women, children and elders, young and adult, farmers and factory workers, manual workers or intellectuals-- existed.  The prevailing trend is to move to the cities, where the creation of jobs, transportation, and basic living conditions demand huge investments to the detriment of food production and other more rational ways of life.”.