Thursday, February 24, 2005

Hillsides and Mountains

Today's idea thrown out there is:

The problem with building future cities is they will be prevented from using up any more land. Especially those near rivers and sensitive shorelines. They need to be built in sand desserts, underwater, or in mountains. Or even underground(best).

As you will see, my idea of the future of buildings is based on zero-tolerance of any more land use other than certain types that i haven't yet looked deeply into yet. The one thing i realized was that up to now there wasn't a way to ENJOY living underground, underwater, or in a mountain. But three fundamental things have changed to hopefully now allow any government to be able to combine current(some already economically viable) technologies and zoning laws into a new way of building buildings that does Not impact the environment at all.

Problem number one is the walls. No windows. Feeling kinda claustrophobic? Well with natural light pumped in on glass tubes, electronic wallpaper(that still needs improvement)that shows anything you wnat from cable TV to a Hawaiin beach scene, and plenty of fresh air pumped in to keep our minds healthy. Nobody will care if they are underground.
Problem number two is that space, energy, and security are at a premium now and only going to get worse.
Problem number three is that the poor animals and plants need a break. We've been slaughtering them for a few hundred years now and I don't think they can take much more. Especially if the weathers gonna change. They won't be able to move with it bc they will run into humans.

Having less and less humans on the Earth and building ecologically invisable human habitation will go a long way to saving our way of life for thousands of years to come. At the present rate, something will snap shortly probably(the odds are against us already).

Mark j

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