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> This is yet another tech 'solution' in search of a problem. And that problem is political, not technical. And the problem they search for has been solved hal
by baybal2 5y ago
> This is yet another tech 'solution' in search of a problem. And that problem is political, not technical.
And the problem they search for has been solved half a century ago — the modern highrise apartment building.
- f6v 5y agoBut that would mean you wouldn’t be able to use cars and a public transportation system would have to be built.
- baybal2 5y agoIt looks to be such a small, and insignificant detail :)
- developer93 5y agoOh no, that sounds terrible?
- f6v 5y agoI wouldn't want to be the one to rob Americans of their trucks.
- viraptor 5y agoThat's good. But if you did want cars - that's totally doable. You build the garages in lower floors / underground and the apartments higher up. There's lots of buildings like that in central Melbourne for example.
- iso1631 5y agoYou could decide to have 5 floors of garages from the ground floor up, and have 5 floors of roads to drive on (especially easy if you make it electric only for most vehicles - maybe confine heavy diesel vehicles to the ground floor with appropiate ventilation) Then on the 6th floor have a pedestrian/cycle floor that's sheltered from the elements, and the 7th floor have open parks, with 30 stories of housing and offices above.
- rdtwo 5y agoI mean tech has been great at disrupting political problems by simply overwhelming then with money. See Uber and Airb&b