The look of our environment

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 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
• more colors - artificial environment starting to feature whole gamut colors
• radically different kind of clothing (clothing partly independent of time of year - except naked)
• radical variety of clothing (open archives of styles)
• abundant physical telepresence
• much decreased negative effect of some natural disasters (earthquakes, storm)
• 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 reciprocating combustion engines - no 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.