8 Minutes, 20 Seconds Book Launch

Join authors Eunjeong Seong and Michael Bell to discuss their recently published book

8 Minutes, 20 Seconds. The conversation, moderated by Alicia Imperiale, explores renewable solar energy, post-scarcity housing, advanced manufacturing, and housing as an “energy asset” shaping future settlement and infrastructure.

8 Minutes, 20 Seconds

Housing after Banking, Encrypting the Sun

By: Michael Bell and Eunjeong Seong

The book envisions a near-future economy and landscape for housing shaped by the converging forces of the climate crisis and artificial intelligence—conditions that threaten to erase the forms of labor that once sustained access to housing and, more broadly, patterns of human settlement. In this imagined world, inexhaustible solar energy becomes a universal basic income for habitation, distributed through advances in manufactured housing. Eunjeong Seong and Michael Bell propose a future in which the house itself is reimagined as an active instrument—one that captures and redistributes the sun’s power as the foundation…