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Beware any utopian scheme that involves the large-scale reworking of existing settlements. The cities where most humans live are complex systems and decades (o
by jfruh 15y ago
Beware any utopian scheme that involves the large-scale reworking of existing settlements. The cities where most humans live are complex systems and decades (or, in many cases, centuries) old. You can't just completely rework them without enormous expense and disruptions.
- robertskmiles 15y agoI think any place wheelchair-accessible is robot-accessible, and that's a standard we should be working towards. As for navigation, it needn't be too tricky. Something as simple as putting up navigational QR codes would help a lot.
- baddox 15y agoThe ambitiousness of this proposal seems on the same order of magnitude as existing infrastructure projects such as creating a city-wide electric railroad network or significantly upgrading a city's road/water/power grid.
- tectonic 15y agoStick QR codes to everything? Or QR codes only visible in IR, so as to be less annoying?
- wladimir 15y agoIf it's not necessary to be human visable/readble, you could also embed RFID tags in walls / the street.