http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Future Cities vs Space for Living en Sun, 31 May 2026 21:39:18 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16067#post-212023 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 17:43:39 +0000 AKen 212023@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Predicting the future has a famously low success rate. Fifty years ago, who would have thought humans could carry around in their hands a device that could access the sum of all human knowledge - and then use it to share pictures of what they just had for their tea? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16067#post-212007 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:54:23 +0000 Stephan Matthiesen 212007@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In the picture I can see 5 drones in a city that must house several million people. </p> <p>In my old 1950s book there were also pictures of wide motorways with one single floating car, inside a happy family in cardigans playing a board game. No, they didn't think everybody would be glued to a smartphone screen, that the motorway would be full of lorries and vans, and the teenage kids would be off to a hackathon or cosplay instead of driving to the country with the parents. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16067#post-212006 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:46:40 +0000 wingpig 212006@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>What's the point in 3D-printing food? Just pump sufficient quantities of each type of mushstock into the same tub and eat/drink it without wasting time arranging it fancily. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16067#post-212004 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:40:43 +0000 cc 212004@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>And with <a href="http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/transportation/mass-transit/maglev-elevators-will-take-you-up-down-and-sideways-by-2016">maglev lifts</a> there will be no need for walking, either </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16067#post-212002 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:32:09 +0000 Stephan Matthiesen 212002@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>"SUPER skyscrapers, underwater cities and 3D-printed homes will be a reality in 100 years’ time, according to a report.<br /> (...)<br /> The academics say ‘bubble cities’ will be created underwater and personal drones will become a staple mode of transport. In the workplace, holograms will enable virtual meetings to take place."</p> <p>As kid I had an old book from the 1950s where most of this was promised for the year 2000, thanks to cheap nuclear energy. Yes, underwater and underground cities, self-driving flying cars (the word "drone" hadn't been invented) and 3-d televised meetings (the word "virtual meeting" hadn't been invented).</p> <p>At age 7 I was totally convinced that I wouldn't need a driving license because present-day cars would be long gone when I'm 18. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16067#post-212000 Mon, 15 Feb 2016 15:22:33 +0000 LaidBack 212000@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="http://www.thenational.scot/business/earth-scrapers-meetings-by-hologram-and-3d-printed-food-will-be-commonplace-in-100-years-says-report.13718">‘Earth-scrapers’, meetings by hologram and 3D-printed food will be commonplace in 100 years, says report</a></p> <p><em>Edinburgh was lucky that Patrick Geddes looked at cities from a human perspective!<br /> </em><br /> Link above to piece about Samsung's 'SmartThings Future Living Report.<br /> - A vision of city living which lacks any green, communal space.<br /> - Who needs trees when you can view them in Samsung 3D?<br /> People will be going on training courses to let them visually interpret 'the real world'. </p> <p>Of course there will be no need for bicycles in these mega structures. Modal shift will mean changing from ground based cars to flying drones.<br /> I wonder how many people find these visions depressing? </p> <p>To me it looks like repeating an SF version of a city from the 1950s.<br /> Is this really the best they can do? Maybe I'm missing something.</p> <p>Apple of course should be able to suggest an alternative, but I have my doubts. </p>