Megacities on the move - Planned-opolis

One of four scenarios exploring how we will live and travel in the cities of 2040.

Planned-opolis:
In a world of fossil fuels and expensive energy, the only solution is tightly planned and controlled urban transport.

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[forumforthefuture96]

Forum for the Future’s scenarios aren’t predictions or depictions of desirable futures that we wish to promote, and they don’t represent our vision of a sustainable future. They are pictures of different possible futures, designed to help people understand the major trends that are shaping our world. They aim to challenge, inspire and excite, so that people feel motivated to plan for a better, more sustainable future.

[Nikopolis1912]

Wow... George Orwell's nightmarish "1984" will become reality.

[UltimaOmega]

If this EVER becomes reality, please kill me! I will never give up that much freedom. I'm gonna eat what I want. I'm gonna have my own car so I can travel where I want and when (I'll even buy an alt fuel car WHEN THEY ARE PRACTICAL AND CHEAP, not this crappy infant stage electric cars Obama wants to push on us). "the state knows" creepy. Call me strange, but I like freedom.

[MilutinMilutinovic]

Idiocracy is a 2006 American film, a satirical science fiction comedy, directed by Mike Judge. The film tells the story of two ordinary people who take part in a top-secret military hibernation experiment, only to awaken 500 years in the future in a dystopian society full of extremely dumb people...

[Xabylon]

Nope. "Megacities on the move sets out to find solutions to one of the biggest challenges – how billions of city-dwellers can access what they need without putting intolerable strains on the planet. It focuses on how to achieve sustainable urban mobility, looking at all the ways in which people will access goods, services and information and make contact with each other. It goes beyond transport to consider ICT solutions, innovative urban design and much more. "

[botorchicken]

no presure... BOOM

[nathenism]

how could anyone prefer this to living in the woods? i have never felt comfortable in a big city.

[ShadesofScorpius]

Ok people, I'm pretty sure this is slightly tongue-in-cheek, slightly a lesson. I realize this is the agenda of many organizations, but the writing is such that it makes everyone feel really uncomfortable. I don't know for CERTAIN, but it does feel like it's trying to make a point about these 'plans', and doesn't want us to embrace them.

"Shut off brain and go to work"? The organizations that want this type of world would NEVER say it like that. They're way too public relations savvy.