FUTURISTIC CONCEPTS TO INCLUDE IN YOUR CITY 2100

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FUTURISTIC CONCEPTSTO INCLUDEIN YOUR CITY 2100

• Ideas from Previous Competitions, plus a few new
  concepts

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Biomimicry

• Engineering using natures way
• Ideas pioneered by Janine Benyus
• WHAT IS BIOMIMICRY
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vFBUpnG1G4yQ
• WHEN NATURE INSPIRES DESIGN
• https//www.youtube.com/watch?vZODvr_GzNc4
• Ask Nature Website
• http//asknature.org/

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Biomimicry

• Engineering using natures way
• Nature runs on sunlight.
• Nature uses only the energy it needs.
• Nature fits form to function.
• Nature recycles everything.
• Nature banks on diversity.
• Nature demands local expertise.
• Nature curbs excesses from within.
• Nature taps the power of limits.

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POWER SOLAR

• Solar roof tiles
• Sun-tracking solar arrays (some with Fresnel
  lenses)
• Passive solar heating to heat water and air
  (soak up the warmth)
• Solar concentrators to boil water and power
  generators

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POWER OTHERS

• Wind farms (blades have whale bumps)

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POWER OTHERS

• Wave power
• Tidal power
• Nuclear (Fission, fusion)
• Photosynthetic
• Geothermal heating
• Piezoelectric

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WATER HOME

• Water from rooftop rain capture
• Capture humidity from air (Aqua Science)
• 100 recycling at the home level (clean all gray
  water in tanks back to white)
• Reduce water use via -- sonic showers -- UV
  dish/laundry cleaning

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WATER HOME

• Reduce water use via -- biomimicry-inspired
  shark-skin fabrics repel bacteria
  minimize laundering

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WATER home continued

• Waterless toilets! Compostable toilets use
  the resulting product as fertilizer.
• Use a special sink and recycling tank for black
  water. Send the resultingwater to landscaping.

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WATER MUNICIPAL

• Source water Desalinated ocean water from
  coastal zones
• Send stormwater to runoff ponds then through
  natural foliage before releasing to lake. Sun
  exposure and movement through plants/soil cleans
  many contaminants from the water.
• Reduce water use through citywide use of
  intelligent landscaping (i.e., desert-friendly
  plants)

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TRASH

• Reduce packaging materials
• Single-stream recycling
• Use biodegradable products Average lifetime
  -- Paper 2-5 weeks -- Orange peels 6
  months -- Plastic or cardboard milk carton 5
  years

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TRASH

• What about biodegradable materials that biomimic
  the attachment mechanism of a sea mussel?The
  materials hold strong for a while and then fall
  apart.

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TRANSPORTATION

• Minimize paved roads use only for freight? (it
  would be safer if personal and commercial
  transportation did not use the same pathways)
• MagLev passenger trains, freight trains
• Land ferries which allow personal
  transportation vehicles and small cars to dock
  and ride, then exit

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TRANSPORTATION

• Volkswagen diesel-electric hybrid

• If the unicycle and Segway had a baby, it
  would look like Honda's new U3-X

• Evolution Pod travels thru land, water, snow, air

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FOOD PRODUCTION

• Rooftop vegitecture

• Vertical farming

• Food replicator

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NANOTECHNOLOGY

• The Weather Machine Nano-enabled Climate
  Control for the Earth.
• Nanosized, tiny transparent balloons fitted with
  GPS radio communications thrusters to maintain
  location and to control altitude and a mirror
  which can be turned to reflect sunlight in
  different directions. Thousands of these
  weather-bots could be used to alter regional
  weather.

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NANOTECHNOLOGY

• How could you use this technology
• Nanosurgery? Early repair of infrastructure
  (telecom, power line and water pipes)?

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SELF-HEALING INFRASTRUCTURE

• A concrete material developed at the University
  of Michigan can heal itself when it cracks.
• No human intervention is necessaryjust water and
  carbon dioxide.
• A handful of drizzly days is enough to mend a
  damaged bridge made of the new substance.
  Self-healing is possible because the material
  is designed to bend and crack in narrow
  hairlines rather than break and split in wide
  gaps, as traditional concrete behaves.

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TELECOMM / INFORMATION

• Babelfish ear-translators
• GPS Personal locators
• Hand-held combo phone/email/browser/map/social
  networking device
• Moneyless society via digital banking
• Libraryless / bookless / newspaperless society
• Round-the-clock medical monitoring
• Round-the-clock security
• QR-codes (2D barcodes read by cell phone cams)

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MEDICAL

• Round-the-clock medical monitoring
• Instantaneous dispatch of ambulances
• Perfect-match organ growth/transplantation
• EMH (emergency medical hologram) instantly
  appears at an emergency
• Reduce infection with shark-skin engineered
  medical instruments
• Noninvasive robotic (and nanorobotic) surgery
• True spinal cord/paralysis repair
• Perfection of gene therapies for muscular
  dystrophy, ALS, etc.
• Drugs engineered with no side effects

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EDUTAINMENT

• Immersive, 3D movies, maps and stories
• Intelligent, lifelike, interviewable historical
  characters at museums
• Multipoint discussion (with real-time
  translation) from home locations among students
  all around Earth (and even those on the Moon and
  Mars)
• Customizable learning environments based on
  interests, abilities and learning styles

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• How can incorporate these ideas in your city?
• What other new ideas and emerging technologies
  can you find and apply in your city?