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Jetson's style future is a 1960s fantasy of futurism that hasn't held at all to the "cool" factor. Robots doing deliveries while creating noise pollution isn't
by piva00 2y ago
Jetson's style future is a 1960s fantasy of futurism that hasn't held at all to the "cool" factor. Robots doing deliveries while creating noise pollution isn't cool at all, the new cool future is one where we are more intertwined with and respectful of nature, where we can live in calm places with green and convenience comes from smart solutions not a brute force fleet of Wall-E robots beeping around us all the time, instead one where the smart solutions are almost invisible so we can enjoy the environment around us. I much prefer seeing more trees in cities rather than metal, glass, and motors.
Unfortunately the urban design of most of the USA is not prepared to embrace the new cool future; current American urban fabric cannot support small shops dotted around neighbourhoods where you can shop for some basic items while fetching your newly delivered packages with a 10-15 minute walk taken going through community gardens, parks, and other amenities to calm your mind. It's all stroads with cars zipping by at 60 km/h or taking a walk passing by never-ending rows of gaudy suburban detached homes with no sense of uniqueness to the space like quirky parks, patches of woods with trails, and other features that can be interesting and calming to the mind at the same time.
That's what I think is cool, coming from growing up in a megacity like São Paulo and moving to Stockholm, Sweden, I'm fucking tired of machines, noise, pollution, the machines should be more invisible as we venture into the future on this Earth, not more prominent and disturbing.