Rezwan wrote: So, I have a number of fantasies of alternative futures and landscapes. None of these is very viable in the current limited resources paradigm where everyone’s struggling to make ends meet and being all miserly with each other.
I like the Jetsons style house. You have these human habitations rise up like mushrooms from the ground. Leave the ground to the non-human life. Humans live 200 feet up in the air, in unused space. They ride the elevator down and experience nature.
Food grown hydroponically inside each dwelling. Flying cars carry you from house to house if you want to visit friends.
Freeways, roads, old cities — these all get abandoned. Maybe have a few big stadiums for sporting events.
There’s no shortage of living space on earth. Not yet, anyway.
-Dave
