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  • Sounds so organised and perfect not likely to happen. Too hollywood

  • @Arg817 People said the same thing about airplanes and the automated assembly line.

  • It is easy to avoid facing this type of factual information, but, frightful as it may be, it seems that we may have to face it sooner or later, particularly if things persist with the world as we now know it... . These are things to think about for sure.

  • Sincerely, there is a lot of stuff that still is completely dependent on petrolific industry that not even is mentioned. Cities that size without any nature and vegetation are anything but sustainable.

  • I believe this could be a reality in less then 20 years and that could be the only sustainable way to improve our quality of life. In that "sustainable open future", information technology will drive the change

  • Please kill me before we have to live like this!

  • You'll be dead if we don't :)

  • I doubt that. You seem to think you will be though :D

  • you know what? I'm actually not that pessimistic. I'm sure I'll be fine. my problem is with the really poor who won't be. I am tormented by how much we consume and do not do much to avoid it. I guess, my statement of "you'll be dead if we don't" was more my hope that we will change. my apologies.

  • An issue that came to mind while watching the comments about more and more of the world's people living in urban areas, is... food. Cities don't produce food. Decentralization might also be a good idea? I don't know... just the view of all those cities and so little plant life was disturbing to contemplate... - LHS

  • That is a good point. Cities as we know them now do not produce food. But cities of the future will have to. Vertical farming, if it can be made practical, may be the answer. I don't think that decentralization is the answer because of the transportation issues that it causes.

  • well i think that food will not be such a crucial issue on decentralizing the population since we will have low cost transport.

    one of the few things that can attract population out of the cities might be services. the only thing that the cities provide better than suburbs and villages.

  • I'm a resident of Tokyo, so these issues of large cities and decentralization have a very real meaning for me. On a personal level, 90% of the work I do in a stuffy office that I suffer through 8 trains & 4 hours (round trip) to get to every day I could be doing from home. Recently I often think Japan would be a vastly more pleasant country if companies would stop insisting that everyone pile into central Tokyo every day. There are options - Utsunomiya, Sendai, etc. are nice-sized cities. - LHS

  • I understand where you are coming from. I am not saying everyone should cram into all the big cities, i just think that the smaller towns could become a little more urbanized.

  • I agree with that. There is a happy middle ground between too small and too large I think. Fukuoka is a good sized city I think - they have public transportation, a full range of shopping options, etc., and it's not overly large, so people don't waste too much time just going from one side of the city to the other. All of that said, even though I complain about the mega-city aspects of Tokyo, I also am fascinated by the city, and I haven't moved, so.... - LHS

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