May 8th, 2007
Endless Skyscrapers
(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)
Loading ...If we ever get this crazy human population on a sustainable pathway, we might have also figured out a way to build really big arcologies that people would never have to leave. There could be entire generations of people who never see the dirt beneath their feet. Of course there’d be some savvy marketer with a dirt room, charging people twenty bucks an hour to make mud pies. Which makes me wonder… if someone has never seen a dirt covered ground, would they have an innate sense that metal or concrete floors just aren’t natural?
May 8th, 2007 at 1:15 am
I like the idea of different strata of junk. Future geologists could date fossils by the version numbers on the layer of AOL CDs they were found in.
July 18th, 2007 at 4:02 am
There was something similar in Asimov’s Foundation series of books: people lived in huge cities that covered the whole planet and kids were taken up to the roof starting at 6 years old, to experience the sky. They cried and freaked out, having only known the ceiling-sky of the buildings.
July 18th, 2007 at 5:42 am
Sounds like a reason to read more Asimov. As if I needed a reason.
you know, I haven’t gotten an aol CD in years. Do they still do that in the UK?
September 18th, 2007 at 8:11 am
Makes me think a bit about a Philip K. Dick story. But then again, what doesn’t… Its the one called “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep” and in this story the entire earth is turning into Kipple (other word for useless junk) really a great story. Go read. Now.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
It is a great story, give it two! Kipple, everything is kipple.
September 18th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Ha, Becky said something about future geologists dating fossils. Isn’t that what Cindy McCain did when she first met John?