Future Cities

This video discusses how cities may change in the face of uncertain future food, energy and water supplies. It is presented by Christopher Barnatt, Associate Professor of Computing & Future Studies in Notingham University Business School, and the author of www.explainingthefuture.com.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Future
• Cities
• Peak
• Oil
• Vertical
• Farm
• Food
• Water
• Shortages
• Alternative
• Energy
• Solar
• Wind
• Power

[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

[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) . . .

[AboutNiels]

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

[kertaspaper94]

@coen1020304050 Not everyone, only those living in cities. :(

[coen1020304050]

so... to feed everybody on the planet we will need: 7000000000/50000=140000 of these 'farms'. hmm, who gonna pay?

[TaviYamato]

LIKE FUCKING LOL , why not build electrical vehicles and electric agricultural tools LOL

[Flynnia]

Visit explaining the future. Dot com.

EVERY TIME! XD

[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 :|