The look of our environment

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This article is speculative. It covers topics that are not straightforwardly derivable from current knowledge. Take it with a grain of salt. See: "exploratory engineering" for what can be predicted and what not.
Even more so than with 3D printing organic looking housing is for free once designed once.
Also much more parks and nature to expect due to automated maintainece.

This page is here to focuses exclusively on the expectable optical look of a future in which advanced atomically precise technology has spread far and wide. Some things may become a reality long before APT is reached.

[Todo: add short explanations and links]

Outdoors

  • agricultural field area replaced through parks for humans and nature or other things
  • streets drastically changing appearance and character
  • vanishing electric power transmission towers
  • sails replacing windmills
  • much more variety in shapes of architecture
  • variety in daily seen ethnicities - stronger societal mixing due to cheaper transport
  • a lot of public displays - screens replacing all billboards screens on/in many other surfaces (like e.g. house walls and parts of streets and walkways)
  • more intense colors - artificial environment starting to feature whole gamut colors
  • brighter colors - as bright as the blazingly glistering reflected sunlight from waves
  • radically different kind of clothing (clothing partly independent of time of year - except naked)
  • radical variety of clothing (open source archives of styles the past always accessible)
  • abundant physical telepresence
  • much decreased negative effect of some natural disasters (earthquakes, storm) – one reason: mostly indoor vertical farming
  • most people wearing computer-glasses or computer-contact-lenses

  • less people seen in local social interaction ?
  • - more global social interaction
  • - less working for survival
  • - more working for what one finds needs to be done
  • - vanishing fixed place of work
  • - dispersed interest groups

  • lights shining down from one or more moon cities (depending on amount of outdoor lighting)

  • very quiet environment
  • - no more jackhammers on newer construction sites **
  • - quieter planes
  • - quieter trains
  • - no loud and stinky reciprocating combustion engines
  • - no loud macroscopic reciprocating compressor pumps

  • no more people fighting mosquitoes

Indoors

[todo: categorize based on rooms]

  • new types of doors (hand sign to let it slide open - no slide in slot)
  • semi soft floors super friendly for naked feet
  • digitally adjustable shelves (adjustment probably wont be done that often) - many styles
  • body shape adapting furniture - many styles
  • always perfect temperature (not exactly a visible parameter but excuse this exception **)
  • tables usable as computers? (might not be needed so much because of VR/AR)
  • unbreakable tableware that retains the so much appreciated characteristics (hardness, sound, "coldness" that is thermal conductivity)
  • breakable tableware (just for effect) that slightly bluntens all the edges when broken
  • upgraded dishwashers (???) and washing machines (???) - active self cleaning ? inch sized cleaning bots ?
  • not much change in toilets ?
  • workshops degrading to just spaces where things can be put together by hand without tools
  • many upgrades to the workshops that explicitly work with "old" materials making those products cheaper too but not as cheap as gem gum stuff.

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