Creating Future Worlds
summary
A speculative plan concentrates 10 billion people into a single hyperdense metropolis that would occupy about 0.02 of global land by mining and repurposing existing cities and shipping fleets rather than extracting new resources. Visualization uses filmed case studies—Mojave thermal solar, Gansu wind, Australian algae farms—and designs like canals, pumped-storage “batteries” and autonomous cleaning mirrors; imagined infrastructure includes batteries alive with fish and pink algae, 42 billion fruit trees and 90 million beehives. It is a provocation, not a deployed project.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Planet City project intro
- 2:14Cities as narratives
- 6:29Broken future counter narrative
- 8:07Planet City 2050 thought experiment
- 10:12Reorganizing humanity hyperdense
- 13:05Technologies enabling Planet City
- 15:14Planet City provocation
