01 · Discover
Bring useful ideas together
Connect existing knowledge about family life, housing, shared resources, and technology so families can explore the possibilities in one place.
FPSA · Family Paradise: Sustainable Abundance
Any family. Anywhere.
Imagine more time together. More room for each generation to grow. More choices for the life your family wants to build.
We’re exploring how families can combine their strengths with practical knowledge and modern technology to make that future more attainable.
What could your family accomplish together?
Your circumstances. Your priorities. Your next step.A better future can begin with what your family already has.
Strengths to share. Skills, experience, encouragement, and the everyday ways generations help one another.
Choices to explore. Ways to use space, share responsibilities, and put time and resources toward what matters most.
Room to be yourself. Greater connection alongside privacy, independence, and a life of your own.
More possibilities for your family. More freedom for each generation.
A future where families can accomplish more together while each generation still has the freedom to build a life of its own.
Read our vision
Our vision is a future where families can create greater security, freedom, opportunity, and connection by combining the strengths of multiple generations with modern knowledge and technology.
Imagine what that future could mean for your family.
Several generations of your family might live near one another, help one another, and share knowledge, skills, responsibilities, and resources—without giving up comfort, privacy, independence, opportunity, or joy.
Modern technology, artificial intelligence, and shared knowledge could help families reduce unnecessary burdens, make better use of their resources, and create greater security and abundance while maintaining a comfortable modern lifestyle.
Our vision is not that every family should live the same way. It is a future where families have more choices and can use the ideas that fit their own circumstances.
Turning useful knowledge into choices your family can use.
Our mission is to discover practical ways families can gain more security, opportunity, and time together by building on their combined strengths and modern knowledge.
Read our mission
FPSA brings together proven ideas and practical knowledge, tries them in real situations, and shares in plain language what worked, what didn't, and what it really took, so you can see what might fit your family.
There isn't one model for every family. FPSA aims to offer tested options you can mix and match, so you can choose small steps or larger ones and keep what fits your life.
Many things that give a family more independence also take a lot of time and effort. FPSA will look at where artificial intelligence, robotics, and automation can take on the repetitive heavy lifting. The point is not more gadgets; it's more time for what matters—giving you choices without creating another full-time job.
02 · Test
Find out what it really takes
Examine costs, effort, maintenance, and trade-offs. Investigate where AI, robotics, and automation might reduce repetitive work and where they still fall short.
03 · Share
Make the lessons useful
Document what works, what doesn’t, and under what conditions, so families can choose and adapt ideas to their own circumstances.
A planned demonstration home in Nevada would provide one place to test ideas in daily life. Its purpose within FPSA is to produce useful evidence and lessons that other families can assess and adapt.
Open the research map
Approved research · Version 2.0
Hammered Earth Insulated Wall
Explore a 24-inch insulated wall proposal, local-material assumptions, and human-versus-robot cost scenarios over a 300-year evaluation horizon.
Read the approved research. This is a research baseline. Engineering, insulation and reinforcement prices, robot performance, and the concrete comparison still need further work.
Start where you are. Choose what fits.
More Time Together
Every family juggles chores, care, schedules and errands. When generations live close and share the load, those hours add up. Here we explore practical ways to split responsibilities fairly, keep everyone’s time respected, and use simple tools to handle the routine, so families spend more time together and less time just keeping up. This area is just getting started, and you can help choose what we study first.
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Explore on the research map:Family life
Making Resources Go Further
Sharing land, equipment, food, water and energy can stretch every dollar further, but only if it’s done with clear eyes. Here we test the real numbers: what it costs to set up, what it takes to keep running, and where sharing works or doesn’t. The research covers growing food, recycling water, and producing power on-site, each written so you can judge whether it fits your family.
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Explore on the research map:Food & NutritionWater & SanitationEnergy
Generations Living Closer
Close enough to help each other, with room for everyone’s own life. That’s the balance this area explores. It includes the home itself: how it can be built, how long it can last, and what it costs over generations. Our first approved research looks at a thick, insulated earth wall designed to stand for centuries. Every finding is shared with its open questions, so you can decide what’s useful.
Research filed here
Explore on the research map:Homes & BuildingsFamily life
Technology That Helps
Technology should give families time back, not create another full-time job. Here we look honestly at where robots, AI and automation can handle repetitive, heavy or around-the-clock work, and at what they cost, how they’re maintained, and what they still can’t do. Some of this is ready today and some is still years away. We’ll tell you which is which.
Research filed here
Explore on the research map:Work & Technology
Make the research useful to your family.
A free account gives you a place to return to the questions that matter to you.
- Keep your own private notes — Write notes on any study and download them any time. Every study is free to read without an account.
- Keep your own research trail — Save studies, follow topics, and find recently opened items.
- Help shape the next investigations — Choose up to three priorities and offer experience if you wish.
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Explore immediately. The family-interest question is optional.
Meet the founder: I’m David Smith — mechanical engineer, master silversmith, patent holder, and lifelong maker. Through FPSA, I want to bring practical knowledge together, test promising ideas, and share what we learn so other families can make better-informed choices.