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Revision as of 11:11, 2 February 2024

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.

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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