Our world is increasingly interconnecting. By 2030, more than 90% of the world’s population and more than 50% of its physical infrastructure will be wirelessly linked through the internet, enabling people, objects, and places to interact with each other in virtually any conceivable way. Yet, the more accessible our environment becomes, the easier we overuse and consume it. The more we command the environment digitally, the more our conflicting needs and wants turn our collective use of it into an increasingly complex political issue that technology alone cannot resolve. One of our most significant challenges in the next decade will be to design and build environments that can turn diverse individualistic perspectives into ecologies of sustainable and equitable behavior while negotiating critically the boundary between the physical and the digital.