Future Cities

[TheBahram203]

I wonder if he talks like this everyday in his life !

[turbomango]

squeezing humans into control centers and criminalizing all open space to be off limits to humans has been thought up by schmucks and morons.

[turbomango]

These are anal retentive morons who sit around with nothing to do so the central bankers have put them to work to talk the rest of us into our own bondage.

[applesweeter]

Dear All,

I have some funny questions:

(1) If the future farm is in an flying object in the sky, what do you think?

(2) If we live in "flying home" with "flying garden" for growing food, what do you think?

(3) How can we add a small farm in a flying home as that in Disney animation moive "UP"?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE for your creative ideas and brainstorm!!! :)

[anoop182]

FUTURE = ARTIFICIAL THINGS :|

[CloudysGuitarChannel]

2:15 Gold saucer ffvii ^_^

[echatav]

What a frightening totalitarian vision

[SkyFlyZz]

Whats a city?

[Tastaalex]

However

[datawraith3080]

Solution... Soilent Green

Problem? Humanitarians? (we eat u first)

[hiphoprockertom]

gaylord



[thePixolated]

f**k this guys trippy!

[cheatdath]

เกรียนเหี้ย

[Foundation111]

the manpower costs those city farms would need are huge.. fresh vegetables are already becoming a luxury in some parts of the world.. there are many good farming lands around the world that are not used to their potential...

[lemsip]

Creating these future nightmare mega cities will consume vast quanities of water, energy and other resources not save it. It's just penning in the masses to control them further and is the elite's wet dream. They will still be living on their ranches and in their castles being serviced by robots.

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@lemsip It would indeed be more ecologically sound if most people did not live in cities, but they do, and that is unlikely to change near-term. So we need to work out how to make our **existing** cities more self-sufficient

[luciano1501000]

scyline you die

[LeKiller1260]

TG

[OreadNYC]

This is brilliant stuff...it's a shame that we're not doing a lot of this already.

[BlazinNSoul]

We likely won't make it this far if we continue on our current trajectory. Where is all our innovation gone. It's tied up in military patents for the war machine. America spends hundreds of billions in military each year. Can you imagine where that money could go if we put it to good use. What we really need is to give people an opportunity to live better lives. In third world country we could create jobs at the grass roots level. Better off people are from start. More possibilities for change.

[KennyReddwooddforest]

@BlazinNSoul Yes, we could create a paradise on this planet, if all people would be willing to listen to great videos like this one, start doing their part to help the planet, start reading educational information instead of religious anti information, if people started to vote according to what the person has to offer, if people started to read the candidates' websites, if people stopped to go to war, if all people started to love all animals, this planet and themselves as well.

[nikki8356]

in the year two thousand....

[ClickHereForCheer]

i hope i live long enough to see the "future."

[MaxyAngel01]

Interesting

[alig567]

Ok... literally i ended up here from Dubai firework show videos :X... the wierd thing is im from nottingham, and it's creepy watching the city being filmed lol :P

[EasternMerchant]

Unless the luxuries presented in this video will be FREE for all types of human beings especially those who are impoverished, uneducated, handicapped, etc. I am not interested because it's just another selfish exploit.

[hayden50]

@EasternMerchant lol, nothing is FREE

[EasternMerchant]

@hayden50 check out Zeitgeist: Moving Forward on YouTube, it will show how we all can live luxuriously and for FREE!

[NetworkHuman]

i think pavement and roads that absorbs solar and heat energy would be more effective.

[mesner5]

the thought of when you walk, you generate electricity, will promote a lot of exercise

[lunayasha]

This is amazing, not only are you producing food, recycle water, but your also creating jobs and cleaner energy amazing!

[explainingcomputers]

@Saphire505 But maybe it will be nice in space one day . . .

[sexy123610]

i wish Philippines should be like this. :(

[explainingcomputers]

@sexy123610 It would be good if we could improve our cities and make them more sustainable all over the world.

[poweroneniner]

i do not like the host at all

[eudaemonian]

hypothethicaly speaking, could vertical pharming be applied for weed production? hmm? just hypothetically speaking offcourse,...but seriously, could it?

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@eudaemonian Vertical / indoor farming technologies may hypothetically be used to grow most kinds of plants. Not least the new kind of LEDs that emit light only at the spectrum required by plants are a very promising low-energy technology that may help to grow plants indoors (and are indeed already on the market) . . .

[mesner5]

@ExplainingTheFuture also the method of producing electricity by walking people would promote a lot of exercise for people.

[venetianca]

@eudaemonian

yes, vertical farming can be applied. But this claims another type of post-industrial revolution, another type of non-polluting and lighting technology.

[KennyReddwooddforest]

@eudaemonian Farming with farm animals on a large scale is not necessary. If homes or apartment complexes or condominium buildings include extra space on roofs and through balkonies or vertical farming facilitations, then there is no more need for farming, particularly not the large factory farming which we see in the USA. Also people can avoid eating large animals and start using only poultry and fish as meats. This is healthier, better for the planet and more economical as well.

[johnson1095]

@eudaemonian

you've got bigger problems if all your worried about is making sure you have weed

[reeceyfezza]

Nottingham at 3:20

[brewskybrian]

id fly a plane in to that food tower

[AboutNiels]

anyone irritated because of he breaks his sentences in 1000 pieces?

[Lypno]

Good ideas.

[FFxLunar]

nottingham

[MrFattyfatfatboy]

thats why my city we will have a warrior class that i will set apon other citys looting and raping and making my city better unless the other citys get nukes, but then ill get an anti ballistic missle defence system and ill be bad again and unleash my minions on other citys looting and raping and bringing goodies back to my city, unless those city are in pakistan as they are all terrorist.

[zhouhongyu524]

What a fuck! Hate the AD!! shit! 5 mins? Are u kidding me?

[yourvidisbad101]

Recycling water would not work. In order to effectively recycle the water (gather, clean, distribute ,etc...) You would be using just as much energy if not more.

[Mmunchies]

@yourvidisbad101 just because you are using more energy doesnt necessarily mean its not possible.

[Arborverden]

This guy looks like he stepped out of an 80's documentary. XD

[ffletcherr]

Lols dumbest idea I've ever heard. No politician would pass a law that makes you grow food on your roof. That would cost thousands of dollars to build and double the maintenance costs of the building. By the time oil dependencies get that ridiculous we will have switched to electric vehicles, negating the need for inner city food production. This guy is clearly a dreamer and not a thinker.

[xqSoccer]

FUSION, WHY YOU NO READY?

[curingaging00]

@xqSoccer It's still under development, but I am excited about Fusion.

[lylesmom]

City's. Are asome

[Shenmueproject]

Welcome, to explaining the future dot com.  BAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[danilo1982sp]

Don´t be fool. Farming in buildings is nonsense. Much cheeper importing. The is a lot of land which is not being cultivated.

[AgrivatedKillah]

@danilo1982sp they already grow things in buildings i.e: marijuana.

[fllamber]

Just spoke to my geography teacher about agriculture verticalization... The answer was mostly "ARE Y MAD??"

But teacher... Why!?

He just walks away

[VtBudgies]

He's creepy

[Imgonnawatchthis1]

However...



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[khangdu89]

Headquarter tower of UMBRELLA corp XD !

[C4Spaze]

What magic is this!

[MRCAPTAINMARVEL]

Important information this i hear BUT why did they get a guy who sounds SO Frigging boring lol..

CM

[Willowman100]

The defect of this agriculture method is the plants growing at the lower floors will not get enough sunshine. But it is a novel idea. congrats.

[CMLaneLV]

@Willowman100 So doesn't that mean we arrange the plants by floor accordingly..?

i.e.: grow mushrooms on the bottom floors, broad green-leaf plants at the tops. Artificial lighting powerred by wind or sun can fill in the "lighting gaps" when necessary on lower floors.

[fllamber]

@Willowman100 But If you create means, as such glass, fiberglass wiring, taller inner space, fake light, maybe this could be a way around

[bagiee1]

...if u want a serious study on future cities...check out the Venus Project... u are in a good path..but more research needed... u can check out also solar roads... for roads that can provide electricity...

[Nastuf]

I love these ideas by now we should already had them in place in cites.

[Beef1188]

Stop stealing from the venus project to further your own agenda!

[Benjamingutierrez408]

Oooooooooooooooo the gov is to selfish

[crysta555]

With all city infrastructure in the toilet (ie aging water, sewer lines, bridges, dams, ) I believe the time is here to begin new cities from scratch and growing food within the city itself which will cut down massively on fuel used to ship in all that food we consume could only be a major plus. Excellent idea. But then near by tall high rise buildings would block the sun required for such farming in these towers. Carefully laid out city planning which German post war cities have no equal.

[crysta555]

With all city infrastructure in the toilet (ie aging water, sewer lines, bridges, dams, etc) I believe the time is here to begin new cities from scratch and growing food within the city itself which will cut down massively on fuel used to ship in all that food we consume could only be a major plus. Excellent idea. But then near by tall high rise buildings would block the sun required for such farming in these towers. Carefully laid out city planning which German post war cities have no equal.

[sk8bow]

THIS IS A CRAZY WAY OF LIVING. WE ARE LOSING OUR EARTH WITH THIS TYPE OF THINKING.

WE ARE NOT ALIENS, WE ARE HUMANS ON EARTH!

[xcalibur4l]

HAHA THIS IS MY CITY.BIG UP TO NOTTINGHAM CITY,UK

[KharamiSunato]

THIS IS A MUST SHARE VIDEO PEOPLE ! im going to go hydro on my deck just to cut the use of oil(dead American/Iraqi's soldiers/peoples). I never thought of hyrdo this way before...what a great and smart move. I know I will inspire at least a few of my guests with the set up and this video. Who will follow me? Start small, ok..and do it for the intention..magic, attraction qualities. BTW what sky scraper owner will let his top floors go hyrdo-farming? this is a actionable item : ) more to come-

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@KharamiSunato Thanks for this. You are right that starting small is the way to go -- let's hydrofarm in our windows and on some roofs to get it going.

[KharamiSunato]

@ExplainingTheFuture here is one easy and fun solution to keep trucks only on the road when needed "" Stack-A-Pots Hanging Planter "" anyone can start growing cheaply and with fun and simply.

[mquiroz90]

@ExplainingTheFuture hey i have some many thoughts i want to tell u

[philquinton]

Brilliant video!! i noticed it featured the bulidings in nottingham i was kind of shocked to see them and rather awestruck , helium 4 from the moon i reckon we ought'a extract

[IQ20000Berta]

5:04 i can't forget this. The future cities are in or beyond the earth for everyone.

Super volcanos, nuclear wars, clima changes, cosmic impacts, deadly epidemics etc...are the reasons for it.

Very important for the future.

[MrGeestacks]

this will only take 1million yrs thanks to bail outs and fail companies! GJ america! land of the fail and home of the pet rock!

[jnickence]

The thing about cities, is that 100+ years ago, citizens were still raising their own gardens, and keeping their own livestock in the yards behind their homes. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to go back to that.

[RHawkeyed]

I like your video, but...

"hydraulic plates in road surfaces that would generate power as vehicles drive over them" Wouldn't that just take energy from the cars so they would need to burn more fuel? It seems like a bad idea, at least with the cars we have today, maybe with future solar powered cars?

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@RHawkeyed Yes, I do see your point -- the energy has to come from somewhere. However, both energy-generating paving slabs and roads with energy-generating hydraulic plates are both in testing at the present time -- I didn't make them up! :-)

[Don73818]

@ExplainingTheFuture

innowattech is a company that is developing it.

Here is the youtube title:

Innowattech Alternative Energy Harvesting System

[Don73818]

@ExplainingTheFuture

there is a you tube that explains it.

Its called innowattech alternative energy harvesting system

[Don73818]

@ExplainingTheFuture

Its called innowattech alternative energy harvesting system

[gr88k]

@RHawkeyed I was going to make the same comment, but after pondering it for a while it would be feasible if they were activated by traffic signals and used to drain energy from cars that would otherwise have been thrown away as heat in the brakes. Sort of arresting louvers that pop up when the light turns red.

[danielmorrisonrhymes]

@RHawkeyed The cars don't burn more fuel, the plates just use the energy the car expends on the roads when they drive over. I don't think if you installed all the roads with these it would generate energy to make it worthwhile, but it could be interesting to install in a busy intersection as a one off, just to make people more aware of the energy that we produce that we can capture.

[RHawkeyed]

@danielmorrisonrhymes So cars drive better on these?

The energy has to come from somewhere.

[danielmorrisonrhymes]

@RHawkeyed No the cars drive the same as they do normally, there's no difference. The energy just comes form the vibrations of the wheels going over the surface. As I said it's not a huge amount of energy, it might be enough to power the traffic lights. But it would be valuable as something to make people think about the energy we can harness contained around us.

[RHawkeyed]

@danielmorrisonrhymes My point is you cannot harness that energy with hydraulic plates. The energy you get from this kind of system comes from potential energy in the car. The car is at some height, then presses the plates down transferring that potential energy. The car then has expend energy to get out of the small hole it has just created by pushing the plate down.

Piezoelectric elements could possibly do what you say.

[ipandah]

@RHawkeyed

I don't think it takes energy from the cars. Just the mechanical energy and friction the car creates as it goes over the pavement. And it doesn't actually take whatever the car is running on. I mean the mechanical energy would just turn into heat, thats why things get hot when you rub them against eachother. However, I can't say for sure because I'm no pro.

[RHawkeyed]

@ipandah Look at it this way, the hydraulic plates will work by being pressed down. When pressed down there is a hole. Cars use more energy driving on roads with holes. It really is that simple.

As I mentioned piezoelectric elements could possibly harvest some of the vibration energy, but is not likely to become very cost effective.

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@obamabinbiden911 Thanks for your comments. I accept that changes will have to be incremental. There is no reason we could not start to farm some food in existing cities.

[Excelsoft]

fantastic work professor! from which UK city are these photage?

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@Excelsoft Thanks for your positive feedback.The city shots were filmed in Nottingham.

[Excelsoft]

@ExplainingTheFuture Thanks for reply, I'm an international student, I hv a master degree from the University of Manchester, can you accept PhD students? where can i find your academic profile?

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@Excelsoft I work in Nottingham University Business School -- you can find me there on the staff pages, inc info on our PhD programmes.

[hazzer777]

Reminds me of Logan's Run

[ocean514]

Fantastic content as always!

[melis256]

Lets hope that tecnology never will go the opposite way ^^ but just keep moveing forward.

[nuclearcollision]

Really like your videos Chris. I'd buy a documentary in HD of all these reports.

[ExplainingTheFuture]

@nuclearcollision Thanks for this. There is a possibility that Controverial TV (who broadcast the "Challenging Reality" videos uploaded to this channel) may do a DVD. I may pursue this now! :-)