In the second variation, called the "vertical archipelago", the village exploits resources in widely dispersed locations, constituting a series of independent production "islands".
This was a society with similarities to the modern one—moving goods on a gigantic scale, manufacturing high-quality containers to do so, and occasionally, even discarding them on delivery.
Nearer the hospital, five men in overalls are winching rubble from the shipyard where they used to make 50 aluminum skiffs a year for the scallop trade.
Biotechnologies for animal nutrition and production are often based on the use of micro-organisms, including those produced through recombinant DNA technology.
Crowdfunding, raising money for a project through online appeals, has taken off in recent years for everything from making movies to producing water-saving gadgets.