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How Would I Design The City of The Future. AI of Course.

Everything would need to be high, as I think there is something magnificent in buildings that reach for the sky and also that are self sufficient. So a building that recycles it’s water supply and has a perpetual enclosed heating and an air-conditioning system. A combined business and living space so that there is a genuine opportunity to work from home.

Everyone would be guaranteed a place to live and would have access to funds for whatever they need for recreation and education.

There would be dedicated buildings for Health, Leisure(Sports and Entertainment) and Government and Banking, all of which would be fully accessible to everyone. These buildings would be within a 10mile square perimeter in the city which would contain everything that everyone needs. There would be no cars or buses. Everyone would use a system of conveyor belts to move themselves and goods and services around.

Outside the 10mile square perimeter, there would be suburbs, where the transport methods to the Countryside and Foreign Travel would be located. This would consist of rental car ports and air transport ( both local and international).

There would be total freedom of travel, but the Cities would be so nice that visiting the Countryside though enjoyable was a leisure choice for some but not for all. There would definitely be citiphiles.

Our current obsession with owning Land will have ended and the Countryside would be managed effectively both for leisure and food production by the people and for the people( and for wildlife and fauna too). It would be seen as pointless to surround yourself with acres of redundant land purely for your own edification. The Countryside and the leisure and farming opportunities would be pleasant and easy to visit and indeed participate in should you so wish.

Finally when you think about it , why have we made such a mess of things? Our cities are horrible and we seem to want to decimate the Countryside either by farming it intensively , killing it’s wildlife or polluting it’s rivers and seas. We’ve only got 50billion years to improve things before the sun burns us up and we disappear into a black hole, so we’ve still got time and the opportunity to improve things for everyone.

Namaste.

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