{"id":1259,"date":"2019-04-14T09:19:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T16:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.futuretechnology500.com\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2019-04-14T09:19:43","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T16:19:43","slug":"imagining-future-cities-what-do-you-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuretechnology500.com\/index.php\/cities\/imagining-future-cities-what-do-you-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagining Future Cities \u2013 What Do You See?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Do you ever take a look back at old\nfiction, say from the 1960s and 1970s? They often depict a future that, today,\nwe live within. Media back in the day would use the first few decades of the\nnext century to paint society in so many ways. Movies like The Running Man<\/em> that showed society as a deeply flawed place.\nOthers showed a society in the mid-2000s as completely transformed, with high\nrise buildings and flying cars. We appear to have landed somewhere in the\nmiddle of this in 2019. However, when we think of 30 years in the future,\ntowards 2050, what do we imagine? What do we see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are presently in the midst of an\nincredible societal change on a global sense. As we move into a new decade,\nit\u2019s expected that we\u2019ll see complete transformation of everything. From how we\nlive to how we get around through to what we do with our free time, everything\nwill adjust. The cities of the future will be nothing like the cities of the\npresent \u2013 just like the past. Technological, economic, societal and cultural\nchange will drive massive change in the decades to come. What, then, are future\ncities like to be like as we approach the second fifth of this century?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nfuture is green<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If we are to survive as a species, we are\nlikely going to need make massive changes to our cities. Many cities still thrive\noff an industrial past \u2013 but it\u2019s a green future that will sustain many cities.\nFrom moving to green energy to self-sustaining cities powered by greenery,\nchange is already coming into action. The United Arab Emirates, for example, is\ninvesting record sums of money into the Vision 2021 plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will be a plan that, if followed\nelsewhere, could change the world. Driverless cars, AI governmental tools and\ndesalination to help keep water drinkable will become common. The introduction\nof blockchain and machine learning into far more than just digital\ncryptocurrency is likely to arrive in the future, too. One of the technological\nleaders in city building, Tallinn in Estonia, is already utilising techniques\nlike this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are in a process if immense and unstoppable\nchange in many ways. We world is going to look like a very different place in\n2020, 2030, 2040 and 2050. Each decade is expected to bring more\nenvironmentally sound ideas. It\u2019s also supposed to bring more technology to\nhelp reduce our dependency on people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is that a scary thing? Yes, in a way. The\nworld is going to keep becoming more and more connected. Technology is going to\nfuel everything, from the food we buy to how we get to and from A to B. Smart\ncities are just around the corner, with everything linked and working as one\nlarge network. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some see that as a rather Orwellian\nfuture. With a planet still suffering from the effects of industry and excess\nconsumption, though, something will have to give. For many, that will mean\nforegoing some privacy in exchange for a cleaner, more modern world. By 2050,\nexpect just about everything to be automated: and that will create its own list\nof problems for society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until such problems arise, though, we\nshould enjoy the ride. The next decades look to be some of the most\ndevelopmentally important in modern human history. Where will it take us?\nProbably far beyond even the most ambitious films of the past. 2050 in reality\nmight look a whole lot different to 2050 in most forms of fiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imagining the Smart Cities of 2050<\/a><\/blockquote>