Saturday, December 12, 2020

Week 8 - Tyler Osterberg

 We step foot in the year 7020 A.D. to observe the future state of our environment.  I am happy to announce that things are looking surprisingly good.  The human population on earth has stabilized around 9 billion, and the technological advances over the past five millennia have put humanity in control of our atmosphere and environment in a way we could only imagine in 2020.

Downtown Paris 7020

Heating and cooling for a human dwelling have become a symbiosis of plants being integrated with architecture, and paramagnetic paints that change the albedo of the area in response to sensor data.  A.I. and predictive analytics now predict weather disasters with enough advance warning that we can introduce nanomachines into the air to lessen the impact.  Earthquakes that had been incredibly hard to predict can now be forecasted to the hour eighteen months out, with volcanic eruptions being only slightly behind being forecasted within a day of the eruption.  It is an amazing time for humanity as we become better and more conscientious stewards of our planet.

SmartCitiesWorld. (2018). Dreaming of the future cities. Retrieved December 12, 2020, from https://www.smartcitiesworld.net/news/news/dreaming-of-the-future-cities-2709

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