Black neon experiment: 5 years from now
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technology[edit]
ar vector overlays
drone
phone exact size and shape of credit card but glass
phones still prevailent
robot service things, service bots, cleaning street, delivery mail drone pizza delivery youtube clip amazon drone delivery testing youtube clip
sight[edit]
ar nightclub signage, people pulling up in robot users uber's self driving trucks
nature overtaking the urban
desaturated sky post storm
sunken pavement
black and white
digital traces of dead people
live data visualised
black neon
goat, apartments [abandoned], old lady, overgrowth
smell[edit]
wind morning trees
rotting crops
country leaked into the city
dusty
less than now (smell)
artificial scent
location[edit]
pot holed rough
kellerberrin (wheat belt)
urban
night club
night time
rural
uninhabited
tarmac
corner of william and vincent st facing the city
sound[edit]
no people
hum of drones
one bird
where has everyone gone?
electric machines workers
wind goat distant traffic (later) thumping bass glitch
feeling[edit]
but not alone
unsettling
excitement survivalist
death by nature
in a john carpenter movie
do not need to leave the house
social[edit]
retreating inwards
veil of safety
political[edit]
borders are down
“I see a whole generation/ freefalling toward a borderless future/ incredible mixtures beyond science fiction cholo punks, irish concheros, high tech mariarchies, indian rockers and anglosandanistas. i see them all wandering around a continent with no name…” Guillermo Gomez-Pena [1]
city states
"As cities grow, they obey certain rules. Urban, social and economic phenomena become more intensive with city size. And most importantly, as West and his colleague Luis Bettencourt have argued, cities are social reactors. The more people who live in one place, the easier it is to facilitate human interactions, the exchange of ideas and creative collaborations."... brexit and the rise of the city [2]
Taking the long view, nation-states are a recent invention in human history. To summarize the bulk of an undergraduate politics module in a sentence or two, nation-states as we know them were directly preceded by kingdoms and empires that spanned large geographic territories and encompassed various cultural and ethnic groups who, while recognizing themselves as subjects of the empire, did not share a sense of collective identity. With the nation-state came formal borders, centralized administration, a unified economy, and in cultural terms a sense of “nationhood.” The idea — albeit contested, even today — was that the citizens of the state constituted one people...[3]
the world city hypothosis, john friedman..[4]
environmental[edit]
mining asteroids for minerals
Near-Earth asteroids are much closer energetically to Earth, than even our own moon, making them the perfect targets for our asteroid prospecting and minings missions. Asteroids are primordial material left over from the formation of the Solar System. They are scattered throughout it: some pass close to the Sun, and others are found out beyond the orbit of Neptune. A vast majority have been collected by Jupiter’s gravity into a belt between it and Mars – an area known as the Main Belt. As it turns out, astronomers have been discovering thousands of asteroids that do not belong to the Main Belt, but instead pass near Earth’s orbit – more than 11,000 to date, with over a thousand more discovered every year. [5]
botanic plant life reclaiming the city
The first Palestinian eco-village is coming to life in Farkha. Here, the agronomist Saad Dagher has found a community to make a shared dream come true: to live autonomously and in harmony with nature... [6]
economic[edit]
cultural[edit]
curated news
