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Idea Detail
Future Cities Past
Score
89%
80 votes, Feasibility 78% Originality 63% Humour 53%
The Problem:
Effeciency of Cities distributing pollution

The Social Invention:
All housing shall be within walking distance of schools, hospitals, businesses, government and industry with all thoroughfares covered by solar collectors. Essentially infrasruture shall be micro localized so the globe shall be covered by a grid of interconnected towns and all needs within each localized society will be fulfilled from within it all the while collecting energy from the sun. All aspects of society shall be monitored by computers and all city environments shall be built "robotically" (see www.contourcrafting.org)first planned in computers for maximum solar gain and pedestrian thoroughfare efficiency.

Essentially all public life will be focused on reducing focused stress on all aspects of biological environment by distributing workload and making collaboration between private interprize and government standard practice. Internet being the connecting feature of society with democracy being internet based and voting being done on all aspects of society. Societal responsibilities shall be known by all, in other words each individual shall be a "jack of all trades" and will be able to trade jobs with others when one needs a change of pace.
The Author - anthony crain (anthony crain)
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shadfurman
24 Mar '09 01:36
Subject: sounds like...
futuristic communism to me. If a company did that with their campus and had all those animities THAT would be cool!
ed
24 Feb '07 05:48
Subject: future city
Imaginitive, visionary, fictional magnitude, technically possible. The locality,centralization, and solar energy are its best strenghts and we don't need to wait for the future to achieve them.We just need to convince developing nations and its hard.
Corndogg
29 Jan '07 18:38
Subject: Sounds great, but
How to get such a project up and running? I would think it would need to begin with a completely new city, so China comes to mind. Existing cities could be retro-fitted, as it were. But who's going to take the initiative?
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