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Could this be a glimpse into life in the 2030s?
- PaulHoule 4y agoIt’s hard to see this as unironic. The predictions read about the same as predictions of the 1980s from 1972, 1990s from 1982, etc. All of the ideas seem tired because science fiction has done them to death so the apartment building is the one in Ballard’s High-Rise, the edible wrap comes from an M.F. Doom song, etc.
- Kon-Peki 4y ago> The high-rise of the future will be a mixed-use building. Apartments might take up ten floors, offices another ten, and hotel rooms yet another ten. There will be stores, restaurants, gyms, and maybe a rooftop lounge. If you’re a tenant, you’ll have access to a wide variety of on-site services These things have existed in New York and Chicago since the 1960s at the latest. High-rises are “new” to a lot of cities and I guess that means the idea of a single use building is cemented into the minds of developers. But in the places where they’ve been building high-rises since high-rises existed, not so much.
- kn0where 4y agoSince this is coming from McKinsey, I’m inclined to say this is not at all what the 2030s will look like.
- simonebrunozzi 4y agoEspecially the part about space travel.