michael gould wrote:
It will be a reality in Masdar. </sarcasm>
http://www.economist.com/science/tq/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12673433
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.feature/id/1497
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Michael Gould
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[mailto:[email protected]] *En nombre de *Shoaib Burq
*Enviado el:* viernes, 02 de enero de 2009 1:07
*Para:* Christian Willmes
*CC:* [email protected]
*Asunto:* Re: [Geowanking] future GIS
Are you denying that there is better life through engineering
and improvement of technology? If so I have to entirely disagree with that.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia
"Ecotopian concept does not reject high technology, but members of his
fictional society prefer to demonstrate a conscious selectivity of
technology, so that not only human health and sanity might be preserved,
but also social and ecological well being. Interestingly therefore,
Callenbach's story anticipated the development and liberal usage of
videoconferencing."
Personally i find cities designed from scratch lack soul - that's one
reason Dubai feels so hollow. Culture and history of a city are
important to a society: just ask the Palestinians or Israelis
best
Shoaib
apparently, this interesting concept of a new technologic society is
explained in http://www.zeitgeistmovie.com/ in the 2nd movie.
the first movie explains where the current society is currently foobar
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