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Two related things that first jump out to me as interesting: - Opens up a lot of potential living space which is geographically close, but not practically conn
by wheels 10y ago
Two related things that first jump out to me as interesting:
- Opens up a lot of potential living space which is geographically close, but not practically connected via transit arteries
- Opens up living space in areas which are not passable by cars either because of terrain or in-tact wilderness (e.g. an off the grid home on a nearby mountain)
Both would no doubt mostly benefit the rich, but well, nobody's shocked that this is where that's targeted.
- 2muchcoffeeman 10y agoWouldn't you still have to build infrastructure to those places to build the homes in the first place? I guess if you are filthy rich you can just airlift things in and out again.
- dogma1138 10y agoYou can source many if not most building materials from the environment wood can be chopped and made into lumber and plaster can be made out of local deposits. If you have some sort of a mobile house factory that will utilize local materials and 3D print the rest you really only need to worry about a few materials that can't be locally sourced. Yes this is far away but about as far as flying cars. Heck In 2 decades you might order a house on amazon a blip will come and set it down some roomba style bots will come out and finish it and you'll jump into your flying car and move in. When you can 3D print almost anything including your food and produce electricity locally via wind and solar you can now live in the middle of nowhere Alaska without much infrastructure.
- wheels 10y agoIf we're talking about the class of people who will use a flying car to get to work, airlifting containers via helicopter to construct their home is probably within reach.