A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects.
Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.
I don't have any artifacts of my profession in my house; the Oscar is in storage.
One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it's the one commonly grown and therefore exceptionally renewable building material that we have available to us. And it acts as storage for carbon dioxide.
Providing 'freemium' cloud storage to society is not a crime. What will Hollywood do when smartphones and tablets can wirelessly transfer a movie file within milliseconds?