Also in the western world more and more people are on the move. Some of them, the e-culture nomads, use computer technology and the internet to be able to work at any place they fancy. Others, the vast majority of the migrants have less choice. Companies want their employees to be flexible and move to wherever the companies’ profits dictate them to go. Then there is this vast and growing river of cheap labourers that despite fences, barbed wire, persecution, discrimination and other forms of inhuman treatment flock to the ‘gold covered’ streets of the metropoles where as modern, voluntary slaves they have to live on the crumbs of the mighty. One can hardly call them nomads in a traditional sense as they have hardly any control over their lives nor their environment but still people are on a massive scale on the move and it is high time not to try to contain these migrations but to use the human resources to develop tools and technology for a modern form of nomadism.

To develop mobile living and working units that are durable and can function independently of their environment and that as a good nomadic technology does not harm the environment and leaves no lasting imprint, while at the same time it stimulates open borders and true intercultural meetings.