Showing posts with label cyber-cities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cyber-cities. Show all posts

9/9/11

Locate cyber cities along existing interstates

Locate cyber cities along existing interstates
A cyber city can be seen as a cluster up to ten cyber-communities of 10K folk
These communities are car free 
Zoned for everything that is safe and useful
Walkable
Four-level max
Designed to be largely weatherproof
Combining max privacy and max public space
Small parks and squares
Shopping kiosks
24/7
Walk to school
Walk to work
B line to related cyber-communities
Move easily among cyber-communities
Where are the entrepreneurs who will build from scratch 
What cannot be evolved from existing sprawl
The interstate system is ideal for a network of cyber cities



8/4/11

The Reason There Is No Consumer Demand Is Simple

The reason there is no consumer demand is that there is nothing out there that will realistically save a lot of money over a long time
Cars and houses won't do that and that is why they are on their way out as market drivers
More sprawl and mcmansion imitations won't excite demand as they are cash cows already bloated beyond sustainability
Conventional education that costs in the tens of thousands for little or nada will not do it and education is pricing itself out of the market
But the first person to build a cyber-city will become the next Gates Zukerberg whatever
A cyber city will be safe because its matrix will exist like that of a huge stadium and will house and operate all of what used to be called plumbing in addition to the full recycling of everything within the cyber-city
A cyber city will integrate everything into kiosks for work, education and commerce and mix residence in with everything else more like a Medieval city than what we have now
This approach will do the major lifting with large screen online kiosk communication centers so that small groups can purchase things, learn and be entertained 24/7
The scale will be such that tons of jobs will be created, many of them part time and skill-centered, teaching, coaching, selling and so forth
But is anybody there yet
No
Is car free beyond oil really the future
For everyone but the deluded
And the Koches

Global Online Privacy

7/24/11

A little slow on the uptake

Norway police arrive 90 minutes after firing began - Digg: "news.yahoo.com — Police arrived at an island massacre about an hour and a half after a gunman first opened fire, slowed because they didn't have quick access to a helicopter and then couldn't find a boat to make their way to the scene just several hundred yards (meters) offshore. The assailant surrendered when police finally reached him, but 82 people died before that."

My cyber-cities would have vastly better security than today's communities do. We are eons behind where we should be on conceptualizing the future. Christopher Alexander had it half-right decades ago but nobody listened.


Global Online Privacy

6/23/11

China will go down the tube of doom


China will go down the tube of doom
Not merely for denying people rights
But for its choice of car and oil and gloom
Till there are cyber-cities in its sights 



Global Onlne Privacy

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