Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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nt things you could say. The person who writes something down and is good at it has just tons of influence. So speech writers actually have a ton of influence over policy because the speech writer writes it and then the politician says yeah that would sound really good coming out of my mouth and that just sort of turns into their theme. So we see here that taking my inert spoken word and turning…

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Now I took a ride yesterday on my bike. I wonder if I could show you this. I know it's terrible holding something up to the camera here but I believe I can show you this. So where I live there are miles and miles of bicycle-only or mostly bicycle roads. So this is a long road through wine country in Livermore, California in which there's no cars. This is just for bikes or whatever. And you could have the best amazing scenery and you could ride for miles. And that's an electric bike. It's an electric mountain bike. And the hills just disappear.

Now you ask yourself do you still get exercise? And the answer is yes. Yes a lot. Because you can turn down the boost, the assist. So whenever I want to just work a little harder I just turn down the boost. And when I want to level off a hill because I just don't feel like it I just turn up the boost.

Now once you see how wonderful it is to travel this way you can imagine a town in which everything is connected by let's say hilly little very interesting winding tree-covered streets that are just for bikes and electric vehicles. And you can imagine that almost like a hobbit city using these ADUs or these little boxable instant houses that you take off a truck and you unfold it and it's like a total house for one person. You slap on a solar wall, solar like a Tesla battery. You can make these little things off the grid for the most part. I guess you need sewage or something but you can get them mostly off the grid. And there's now a technology where you can suck water out of the air enough to actually run your home.

So we're at a point where building an amazing village from scratch where you're not looking at your neighbor but he's just over the little tree-lined hill. And if you want to go anywhere to buy some groceries or something you jump on your scooter and the path itself is really fun, right? You've had this experience right? Sometimes going someplace is fun if the actual destination path is just really interesting to look at. You don't mind the ride at all.

So imagine making all of your transportation fun and easy. It would change everything about your experience. Imagine your delivery service all by electric vehicle so that there's so many people delivering all the time that the cost of getting a sandwich drops way down because there's always an electric bike going right past the sandwich place to your home. And if you're on an electric bike it costs you practically nothing. You just drive by, hey grab the sandwich, drop it into your mailbox. Boom.

So if you were to build a home, a community from scratch, you could do it at 10 percent of the cost of current living and it would be so much better. Just the lifestyle, everything about it would be better. Where is this magic place? It's a place that you could build right now with current technology. So that's my prediction about where housing is going. It's going to start from scratch, build a community and make it electric bike connections or elect

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ric vehicles, could be carts or any kind of thing, and off the grid as much as possible to protect the homeland by the way. Because you don't want people to be too vulnerable to the grid. So you want to get as many Americans as you can off the grid entirely so they could withstand a grid attack. And there you go. Now is that optimistic enough? Did you notice today was all the optimistic stuff? Di…

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