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This article appears in Jan 17-23, 2008.
RE: Neutopia :
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I always wondered if by having multiple arcologies that would create a new form of nation states in and of itself as each arcology might set themselves up as mini-states governed by their own wants and needs. Otherwise, it suggests neutopia — the idea — would be enacted with a severe amount of authoritarian socialism (each arcology cannot operate autonomously! says the larger gov’t) and that limits personal freedom. Is this really our future? Once someone puts a Segway into the mix of a pedestrian city — assuming there are not enough electric walkways — then the drive for minitized personal transportation may flourish and create new issues.
2)
I understand solar power will be an effective way to power a society (at least here, maybe not Britain), but by eliminating postal mail (per the response to Max Cannon question on postal vandalism) and having communication operate from email, that indicates computers will be part of society. That also means hard technological goods will need to be manufactured — where and how? As well, telecommunications will need to happen, meaning more material goods. Will the government pay for all of this and the arcologies — and if so how will this transition occur if there are a big number of holdout people who reject arcologies vote against it? (Or will the Neutopian government just blow past any of “those problems” – a direct slap against the political stumping from the Doctress that an arcology-based society would be a full democracy.)
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Returning to the solar question, will operations of technology, such as computers, cause an overuse of the power grid? And, that said, for ecological benefit, will printing presses be eliminated, meaning more power will be necessary for people’s reading needs (use of an Amazon Kindle, for example)?
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Also, where will our water come from, and if it is from lines far away from the arcology, would we not need the ability for automobiles — machinery that is mobile on its own propellent, as per dictiony definition — to exist to send crews to maintain said water lines? Or will the arcology be self-sufficient until the water table is dried up? Water is a key concern of mine. Or if we eliminate automotives will we return to animals for our human transport needs?
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Lastly, I also am curious if the arcologies will be open roofed or closed roofed, and if it is the latter (living in bubbles) how pollution may come into play.
I saw this last night perhaps before the event started. I didn’t realise that the blogs start meaning ‘today’ the day before the issue date.
So on my way to the event TODAY I checked the print edition and discovered after some frustration that once again I had missed an event because I had apparently erroneous assumptions about reading online.
P.S.
I did notice that the entry was made at 2pm a day before the evening I thought was referenced. I thought it odd that the entry waited until after the paper went to press but didn’t wait till today. I might be wrong and it’s not till I got online just now that i came up with this theory of how I believed it was tongight not last night. ……. also it was already over I guess when I was online here so call it a near miss. In fact it might of been after midnight. Funny thing is at the dog park I even mentioned to someone how I might be online before the print edition hit the streets. …. and this explains my frustration in finding the event mentioned in todays print edition! I actually missed another talk tonight spending so much time looking for it and writing this too lol.
Is it too much to ask that the “tonight” not be used especially online for any event occuring on the eve of first night of an issue?
……. and finally I understand what the commens where about I thought they must of been submitted questions for the debate when I saw them last night! Perhaps you could partition blog entries to correspond with issues that is have all entries root under the new issue announcement. (Is it worth mentioning that I had hope when I realized the past tense writing was about the rehearsal? When the last election issue came out I thought (well prior to the last) it was satire of expectations not realizing you had held the issue. Then in the last issue you did the thing where you did spec workups for both outcomes. Only you didn’t anticipate the election being stolen.
Finalllllllly… Last night I read the snafu entry I think whevever it was. It was not written in the proper past tense of being after the debate.
Karl: We’re sorry you could not figure out that “tonight” on a blog entry with a time stamp meant the night of the blog entry. In any case, the debate will repeat every day EXCEPT Tuesday and Thursday between now and Feb. 5 on Channel 99 (Cox) or 74 (comcast).