Atlanta in 2108: Merging DNA with Architecture

[panosfye]

adjasting nature to as ? wy not adjust as into nature ?

[Shaiyakeisky]

So we will living at the jungle full of electricity :)

[SVHSolyom]

@Shaiyakeisky Sounds good to me :)

[happinesson]

this is far beyond my understanding.Far beyond reality and far beyond possibility! what an imaginative brain you have..

[limeliter]

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[NyZe211]

lol @ Metreepolis

[GLaDOSBOY19]

All I can say is. DERPDERP DICKDICK DERPHERPDERP LOLOLOL.... bitch im going to blend that with my BLENDTEC BLENDER!

[erasmusso]

If this is true we'll get there, but gradually! It won't happen overnight and it will surely need a LOT of changes in our society. I believe the first step is the Venus Project, which is based on the current technology, and only then we'll see if DNA-buildings are a reality.

[1dtbimp]

Its like spongebobs Pineaple house. Haha

[jcdenton100]

Wont the self reproducing buildings be like trees and keep growing? Nature will eventually take over and the building like trees will grow out of control and break through each others glass and push through concrete and destroy roads.

[reinux]

given what i've seen of corrupt urban planners and transit politics, this will never, ever happen in all but a small handful of benevolent cities.

[MrJKILLA7]

OMG TO MANY INSECTS RUN AND DUCK FOR COVER LOL

[MrJKILLA7]

this is so fuckin far fetch this made me squat in my pants how dumb are they to think they can fuse dna with building moducles and codes how funny to see faild sciencetist making theroys on how we are going to mix buildings with dna its almost like james and the giant peach umm i hope i have home insurance if my house burns down oh way that why we got bio technology for i just grow me a new one man that so fuckin far fech

[CHeckMateTiger]

@MrJKILLA7 cheers! totally agree

[CHeckMateTiger]

Hahaha LMAO @ the idiots who want to replace nuclear power with gene-manipulated plants supposedly because its more moraly and politically correct. hahahahahahaha... biotards!

[oasiac]

@CHeckMateTiger At one point the cost of doing both will be the same but you will have to choose wisely because one will leave long lasting radioactive waste while the other will simply biodegrade like we all do making clean up easy cheap and clean. Not only that but the cost of manufacturing will be barely nothing when all you will likely have to do is plant it in the ground as a seed and it grows itself and sustains itself.

[CHeckMateTiger]

@oasiac "Grows by itself" ... thats the problem! GM plants will lead to deforestation and an imbalace in our ecosystem. Its like playing around with a pyramid made of cards! Nuclear power is very dangerous but its effects are MORE forseeable THAN GM and its cheaper than 'bio'. Radioactive waste will in future be refed into the earths core where it came from. Regardless of how dangerous Nuclear power is, its worthwhile pointing out the fraud behind this 'Bioretardism' as if there are no risks.

[oasiac]

@CHeckMateTiger In time we will see if what your saying is true or not but think of the many other possible implications of this technology. I believe this is going to be an excellent solution to the growing population. humans are born, live out their lives and eventually die, in the process they give back to the earth in the form of their dead body. I would like to see their technology do the same. It would be wise for us to base our technologies systems similar to natures systems.

[MeIsBreen]

This is all fancy talk for big tree houses.

[4aaaday]

lol at hungry people

[balex0]

This is bad. This is REALLY bad. If any plants DNA gets released into the wild, it's able to evolve like it's been able to for a long while, but with the new genes we've put in it, making it uncontrollable and unpredictable. Wether or not iit would have consequences for us, would be for the plant to decide.

[dymi14]

Artificial Intelligence is the future

[OntDinRS]

Messing with plants speak'm da bad juju!

Anyone see that anime movie about the modified plants that grow so fast they literally ravage earth and the jungles suffocate mammalian life in a thick atmosphere of oxygen, so the only way they escape is by living on mountains where the air is thin.

[BaronVonLichtenstein]

Touch the monkey. Liebe Meine Abschminke.

[MrxDarkxPrince]

I bet this guy is german ^^ because I am and i know this shitty accent from my classmates when they try to speak english xP

[LoganRansley]

amsterdam lol... they were probably all high out of their brains at this meeting

[supreme12]

Man controling nature with his savage mindset = FAIL!

[Gutten111]

glad ill be dead this time

[member186]

Dont you dare to give mind to building, otherwise it will happen same as VIKI

[phase866]

"We can do this in ten years"

LOL IF WE SURVIVE BEFORE TEN YEARS PASS

[rysskryssning]

@phase866 TRUE MAN 2012 IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER AHAHA

[phase866]

@rysskryssning Haha I wonder if I'm the only one who's actually EXCITED to see what happens.

[rysskryssning]

@phase866 No man, I'm with you.

[rysskryssning]

@phase866 I'm going to fap the minute the doom is about to obliterate us.

[phase866]

@rysskryssning Lol fap to the big wall of water coming towards you, or the meteor.

[rysskryssning]

@phase866 Or both!

[Bidmartinlo]

Oh snap! Are we to make abominations only because of some hippies? Glad I won't be apart of it. None living material is what I'll stick to. But if you like to live in some tree like some bloody mythical elf, then fine. xD

[CorruptionData]

What the average human fails to understand is that reality can be changed very easily because it is only a system of thoughts.

[thesledbub]

Oh god this is hilarious.

[KungFriedChicken]

Fuck there is so many uneducated people with smart ass comments its incredible.. Its basically photosynthesis solar power... Plants are fucking mega efficient at converting sunlight into energy.. We know its possible, and they are already pretty close to cracking it.. (CSIRO is already doing it) another 10 years or so and they think they'll have it down pat.. plus it will absorb carbon etc... awesome idea blah blah

[stukskekrapuul]

I want a zero gravity tree one that floats

[bakufan988]

i totally LMAO at the Metreepolis part OMG

[opo736]

so ze plants r gon be in teh buildingzz? soundz 1337

[Camaull]

POWER PLANTS LMAO

[TheMarkOfTheBeast1]

Fucking pointless...

[mariofanoo1]

@TheMarkOfTheBeast1 the plants can lower the pollution they take in carbon dioxide (wich is polluting the world) and breath out oxygen makes us happy face :D

[djc6883]

back off my city

[chrissaad]

yet cancer will still be present 

[mariofanoo1]

@chrissaad who the hell gave the you thumbs up cancer is bad not good

[Hiverization]

"Do they still have sandwiches there?"

[stukskekrapuul]

@Hiverization they wil be growing on trees

[Hiverization]

@stukskekrapuul...... very niiiiiice

[saeedsnne]

Like the Great Einstein said himself. "Imagination is more powerful than knowledge"

[FlowerClown]

going green

[dukehey2]

Metreepolis!

[Th3Wab3]

Yet another example of arrogant blindness.. Last I checked people and nature r one and the same. We can't even control our minds and emotions yet we think we can control natural organisms and assume no cosequences...

[Mastikator]

No guts, no glory.

[FuckinHateNewUtube]

@Th3Wab3 The intelligence of humans is limited.

We are flawed, therefore everything created by us is flawed.

However, this doesn't mean we shouldn't invent and build upon what little knowledge we do have to make life more convenient.

[davidanthonymitchell]

@FuckinHateNewUtube I like your point but I think whilst we all individually flawed that collectively we can surpass our individual flaws to create a better and like you say more convienient enviroment and future.

[hunterbender]

issues relating to allergies, drug resistance, etc.

While these advances may be in accord to the laws of physics, I cannot but remind us that we have not yet unravel all of the nature's mystery. Ultimately, chaos would enter the system (as in Jurassic Park) and bring forth destruction. Our best hope is to be careful and not let our hubris dictate our actions.

Side note: I do not want to argue. I simply state what I believe to be the proper path. You have every right to disagree.

[hunterbender]

that have worked for so many years. We, as a civilization, should have have the preconception of working to curb nature to our desire. Instead, our technological advances need to be mindful of the natural way.

Another example comes in the GM crops, which have revolutionized our food production (by no means is it a bad thing). But the production of GM crops have consequences that we ought to be aware. The genetic material have mixed with weed and created super-weed. It brought forth health issue

[hunterbender]

First of all, I am not a hippy. I am an econ and bioE major and I do believe in technology. However, everything must come in moderation.

I will simply cite a few example on how human technocratic concepts failed within recent history. New Orleans, yes, the flood. For decades, we believed that the levee as the main solution to flood. We have scientists and engineers who believe that technology can conquer nature. The levee-only approach failed. Instead, we should imitate the natural processes

[JonnieDarko69]

I can't disagree with you about New Orleans at all. Good observation, though thats comparing apples and oranges in my opinion. What if this works though? The power plant idea is amazing and as an Econ major don't you think this would be benefitial to man?

[thereallurker]

who is the german fag talking?  maybe they can clone out his lisp?

[ls1z28chris]

If this is what Atlanta looks like in 2108, don't expect me to complain when Gen Sherman 2.0 comes through to burn everything down again.

[hunterbender]

Why do men think they are above nature? We should not have this mindset of altering nature to fit our vision, we should change our ways to be more intune with nature.

I find this entire concept distasteful. Sadly, it follows suit the modern technocratic views.

[ls1z28chris]

Hubris.

[Lawsuit]

Why should we be more "in tune" with nature? And how would we do that?

Also, I don't see how genetic engineering is twisting/modifying nature. It doesn't defy any physical laws; you can just see it as progressivism.

[JonnieDarko69]

What kind of hippy bullshit are you talking about?

[hunterbender]

@JonnieDarko69 I responded to your question on the original video page.

[thunderpants10]

I was with you til you said meTREEpolis, now all I can think is douchebag

[neotoy]

ROFL, exactly what I was thinking.

[denbowan]

Insects! Too many insects!

[pgermani2008]

I just don't get it...

[endsequence]

It's simple, think "sustainability".

[alleynz]

I think they have forgotten about nano technology. We may be able to create nano bots that create other elements and assemble them.

[kevintype]

@alleynz - Nanotech is still in the future, possibly decades away from having practical applications at this scale. The methods discussed in this video could see early practical applications during the present decade.

[matthewj1985]

...and no one will be hungry and there will be peace on earth. Wonder how much funding it took for these hippies to draw pretty pictures and talk about the future around the drum circle.

[garvess]

This video should be titled, "How to be laughed at by future generations". Predicting what architecture will be like a hundred years from now. It almost makes me laugh.

[tombstone999]

LOL Exactly!!!

[CrazyDragonX]

@garvess

You'll never know. Sure we still don't have flying cars and stuff but who says that it won't be realized later?

Even if those predictions sound crazy - they may come true some day.

Saying "this never comes true!" is like saying "people will never fly!"

[Mastikator]

The reason we don't have flying cars is for practical and safety reasons, not technological. We could if have flying cars if we wanted to.

[CrazyDragonX]

I know. My point is that we may develop better technology later to build economical profitable, user-friendly and for the average Joe accessible and interesting stuff which people were dreaming of many decades ago.

But yeah, we don't know if people will be ever interested in those retro-future kinds of technologies (see picture-phones for example... though, you could compare that to webcams)

But hey, you should never say "never". Because who knows.

[Dolloozze]

@garvess aaah, you are so MEGACOOL! because if the visionaries about future architecture are WRONG, then they must be idiots! seriously, when did you find out that predictions about the future are almost always off? what a great amount of insight you must have! I bet you have a really long penis as well, right? it must be huge, judging by the coolness of your post. no seriously, please put your face in a bear trap. everyone knows, even those making predictions, that they are probably wrong

[OntDinRS]

@garvess

Just like we laugh at the 1950 predictions.

[TheOneAndOnlyMichel]

@garvess it made me go roflcopter

[AMANDAtheAWESOMEone]

@garvess I know I'm a year late on replying to your comment, but why does it almost make you laugh? =)

There were houses built in 1911 (100 years ago) & way before that still stand today. Houses today reflect the designs of past houses.

It isn't that hard to predict architecture. Especially based on studies of environmental and economical changes.

Maybe if they were predicting architecture 500 or maybe even 1,000 years from now, that would be hilarious.

Things change fast, but not that fast.

[steekg]

didn't south park's eric cartman do something like this but with stem cells. haha

[ThinkWithYourMind223]

This would kick so much ass...

[sammietr]

We'll be living like the Navi people!

[ndyt]

Control of DNA is the future.