In this poignant, thoughtful, and innovative analysis and plan of action, A. Nicholas Frank and Elisa Frank, a father and daughter team of social thinker/innovators, propose a socioeconomic transformation. With the pillars of society crumbling (a failing economy and dysfunctional democracy), their focus is not criticism but reconstruction. The Holigent Solution serves as a blueprint to rethink and rearrange the way we live, work, commute, consume, maintain, and govern ourselves - a community at a time. Modeling a socioeconomic system after Nature's frugal self-organizing building code, as...