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Inside the first self-sustainable city on Mars - by ABIBOO studio
Inside the first self-sustainable city on Mars - by ABIBOO studio
Construction of the city of Nüwa could start in 2054 and will see 250,000 people live inside the rock of a steep cliff. Freeze my body, melt me in 80 years, and send me to Mars. Architecture studio ABIBOO has revealed its plans to create the first self-sustainable city on the Red Planet, which is set to be ready for residents in 2100. The city will be called Nüwa and will be located at Tempe Mensa on one of the Martian cliffs. Its position inside a rock on the steep cliff will protect its residents from radiation and meteorites (cool!) while still giving them
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Ideaalmaailm
Ideaalmaailm
There is unity, standards are in place. All the electrical sockets are the same in every country, and in every country you drive on the same side of the road. Prices and national economies are stable and the same, so everyone gets paid the same and shops have the same prices. Life has been made very simple. There are no bureaucratic obstacles. You are free to live in any country you want without restrictions.
Lēciens pāri šodienai
Lēciens pāri šodienai
It is Europe in 15 years' time that I want to see as a united, free, prosperous country, where the well-being of every citizen is the main priority. I hope that we will have been able to preserve the national and cultural values of each country. Our external borders will be strong and inviolable, but the aggressive neighbouring countries to the east will have caught the disease of their imperial ambitions. Wars will be a thing of the past, and humanity will finally be able to devote all its efforts to solving our common ecological problems. Advanced technology will make it possible to live with minimal resources. We will be world leaders in education. Our voice will be decisive throughout the world, because by then the positive changes in demography will have borne fruit in the great numbers of the new generation. In economic terms, our European currency will be the main one on which the rest of the world will calculate its national finances.
ES - pasaulio lyderis
ES - pasaulio lyderis
I believe that emigration from Africa and Muslim countries will be controlled and that the war in Ukraine will be a lesson in the realisation that Russia is evil. EN people will be proud of Europe's power and will no longer fear Muslim attacks in European cities. I believe that the euro will become the strongest currency in the world. I believe that the economy in the EU will be the strongest in the world, or the extreme parties will become history.
L'immigrazione è stata controllata
L'immigrazione è stata controllata
I live in a Europe where only legal immigrants who have been allowed to remain and are perfectly integrated are welcomed, not illegal immigrants who enter illegally without documents and do not want to integrate. I live in a Europe where we must no longer be afraid of terrorist attacks, attacks or bloodshed perpetrated by extremist and Islamised irregular immigrants who endanger the survival of the very values and ideals of a united Europe.
Labbūtības laikmets Homo Earth Wellbeing
Labbūtības laikmets Homo Earth Wellbeing
Three things that have changed or improved are the health system and wellbeing, jobs - how and where we work, and transport - the speed and way we get around. Preventive health promotion, taking care of health before it is necessary to treat it, is a focus on being healthy physically, mentally, spiritually, so as not to get sick. Doctors look at people holistically, not within the narrow framework of one specialty. Well-being and nature and forest therapy are as natural as brushing your teeth or going to the gym. Workplaces are in nature, where people can be creative to the maximum, work in a breeze or in a team. Open office is no more. There are co-working spaces in nature, for working alone or in groups. We move around with flying cars, which are as environmentally friendly as possible, environmentally friendly and a positive revolution in the current transported a movement system. In general, people are living longer and better lives with a huge focus on preserving other species, positive interactions, coexistence, protection and non-extinction. Conservation of nature and animals, insects, birds as a priority. Human well-being as a priority.
Seniorin  normaali päivä vuonna 2040.
Seniorin normaali päivä vuonna 2040.
- When I wake up in the morning, I activate my personal wellness robot while checking that day's programme for health care, send the shopping list for food delivery, check the weather forecast for the day and decide when to go out. After breakfast, I open a group meeting with my best friends to exchange the most important news. I check my nightly health report and then we can play board games with the robot until the lunch delivery guy arrives with a tasty treat. - At this point, a nap is in order! Now oxygen jumping to clear my thoughts and physics. - Afternoon entertainment in the form of a reading circle with 4 friends in the form of a new book we were among the first to receive electronically delivered a week ago. After the guests have left, the evening is spent watching the TV travel programme, exchanging ideas with my robot about the information programmed into it about my virtual destination. I go to bed for the night safe in the knowledge that I am under surveillance for both sleep and my body's functions, getting help without delay if needed. Good night :)
Samhørighed
Samhørighed
I hope to see Europe standing strong together in a common voice. Unfortunately, there is great uncertainty about Russia's intentions, but there must be clarity and cohesion between Russia and China. We may not become friends, but wars are not the way forward. We are also very different in Europe, but we still have unity in the EU - with the exception of Hungary - maybe... NATO he lied boisterously has become an uncertain factor, which no one thought before trump came to power. It's a big knot that must and must be solved.
Svet v letu 2040 bo takšen ...
Svet v letu 2040 bo takšen ...
A world based on technology that improves people's lives. Engineers and scientists are the engine of progress, and artificial intelligence is a tool that helps us, not rules us. People have balanced lives - work and hobbies are equal. Europe has become a leading economic power, surpassing America, China with technology, sustainable innovation. Wars are a thing of the past as countries have realised that power is measured in innovation, not in weapons. The streets are full of electric vehicles, cities are smart and geared to people, not just capital. Working from home and flexible schedules are the norm, giving people more time for family, sport and creativity. 2040 is proof that we have chosen the right path.
Ku zniszczeniu wartości człowieka
Ku zniszczeniu wartości człowieka
I am in the European Union but I wish it had less influence on the economy of individual countries. I hope that the green forest will not pass, the whole world has somewhere green order only the union takes care of us. I believe that you need to live in accordance with nature,you need to protect forests,rivers lakes,our nature in the general sense,but not at the expense of humans. We are mammals but also predators. We can not walk away from the consumption of the city,if someone wants please do but nothing by force. I hope that the "last generation" together with this stupid Swedish woman will understand the values of being human will approach economic as well as environmental issues with more understanding. Because for now we are striving for the times as shown in the time machine,all equally dressed,All doing nothing ( artificial intelligence will do for us) and we will eat flowers and miss grass. The current situation is leading to just that, and those who govern us now do not realize what consequences will result from such an approach to life
Psichologine savijauta
Psichologine savijauta
The future belongs to technology. It will help us in many areas. For example, in transport. Traffic jams, delays, impossible time management, stressful situations - all this will be forgotten. Road traffic will be regulated in such a way that when you enter your destination, you will be directed to a particular branch on the ground, underground or in the air to travel without any disturbance. Parking your car, finding a place - you will be forgotten! You leave your car and it will be transported to a specific location according to its number. The only downside is that you will have to enter the next destination into your phone to get back on the road and wait a couple of minutes for the transport to arrive at your previous location. No traffic problems!
Έξω από ΕΕ. Ελλάς Ελλήνων και εσωστρέφεια αυτή είναι η εξυγίανση.
Έξω από ΕΕ. Ελλάς Ελλήνων και εσωστρέφεια αυτή είναι η εξυγίανση.
I want the future of Greece to be outside the EU. I want the whole Greek society to change, to be explained. I'm talking about a future with consistent services, from public transport e.g. comfortable delays etc, and all the others. A future with 24-hour commuting of all public transport, metro 24-hour electric 24-hour buses 24-hour buses 24-hour ferries 24-hour especially for the islands of the Argosaronikos since they are in Attica. A future without NGOs. On the one hand, whoever wants to produce auxiliary work by himself, NGOs serve interests unfortunately, e.g. Islamization of European states and not only... Besides, advanced societies are completely correct, they do not need NGOs. Increasing penalties for delinquent adults and juveniles. Generally in Greece there is protection of victims and exposure of victims, this is unacceptable and yes in the future I would like it to change! Victims should have the right to self-defense and not be charged for it, on the contrary the attacking and delinquent criminals should be punished with the maximum penalties which will in any way, make the criminal incapable of committing any form of crime again, so that citizens who are not at fault are protected and stay in a safe environment! not to protect the malicious elements. Here in Greece it is a fact that delinquents and criminals generally operate in a serial manner which means that the sentences that exist obviously do not punish them and therefore no work is produced. I want a future with swift justice without adjournments of courts etc. with fast track procedures. No waiting 5 years for a case to be heard and even more so in idiotic crimes where there is not a shadow of a doubt, immediate imprisonment without a case being heard. Abolition of bureaucracy in all areas. Banks should respect their customers and not inconvenience them because you put your money in and it is unthinkable that you have to make an appointment to settle any money banking issue, while you actually keep those jobs, they, they refer you to do everything yourself. It is possible to go to the butcher, ask for chicken fillets and be told, sorry fillets we provide every Tuesday 9:00 to 10:00 and Thursday 9:00 to 10:00 and then say okay I would like ground beef!and have the butcher tell you here's the leg there's a machine you can cut it and know that the price includes the use of the meat cutting machine plus a fee for weighing, wrapping paper and a fee for issuing a receipt..this is how banks work, we trust our money to them without any respect for us. To have eliminated corruption that starts first with politicians, extends to the public as well as the private sector. State payments should be consistent, not waiting for the allowance, pension etc. that you are entitled to receive after two years as is the case nowadays, while the state imposes on us citizens to be punctual in our tax obligations, because otherwise it fines us etc., but the state forgets that we are its driving force and we are the ones who sustain it and feed it and its fund. There will be no homeless people on the streets. I will live in a safe society will have stopped the flow of migrants and refugees. All of them will have been sent back where they came from as well as having all their rights taken away such as citizenship, nationality benefits. A state that will have been ethnically cleansed will be Greek first. The policy of subsidies to foreigners and self-proclaimed Roma will be stopped. The Roma will have been driven out of this state. It will have become a sweeping operation. We will have a healthy society in which we can breathe freely and speak freely, the so-called democratically cloaked fascism will be gone and we will be able to freely express our opinions and views. Fascist political correctness will no longer apply. The confiscation of Greek property will have stopped. Taxation will have stopped. There will be an exclusively internal economy without extroversion, Greece is able to live and feed its entire Greek population, it is a self-sufficient and rich country, it has its agriculture and livestock farming, it has the renewable energy sources that many foreigners want to get their hands on... Co-exploitation they call it! generally it is rich in mineral wealth and minerals, we don't need to get energy fuel food etc from other countries because we can produce it ourselves and live rich. And not to be the pawn of the virtual crisis created and skillfully handled by our big foreign partners.. e.g. they tell you war in ukraine! the price of grain, oil, gasoline and everything else will go up.. mercy do you know from which century Greece has been growing grain? Do you know since which century Greek women have been adorning themselves using gold diadems, earrings, rings, etc.? Do you know what century the Greeks had shields and gifts of metal? and not only...! Or are you unrealistic? Leave our economy and our production to us exclusively, and for us. You Europeans have advanced us. The funny thing is that Europe is Greek but of course that doesn't serve the partners to remember that. They made a union of barbaric peoples and used the term Europe, Europes was nothing like what the European Union stands for today, but hey sure, why did they misappropriate that name? Obviously because those who produce civilization today did not have a name of their own, while we, being the uncouth Greeks in their eyes, could offer them the ideal. The EU has altered our national character, it is responsible for the influx of foreigners, it has condemned and flattened our economy, it has flattened our standard of living, so in the ideal future I would like Greece out and to make its own way. Why have the civilized German Europeans not paid war reparations to my country; but instead they sometimes wag their finger at us for the debts of the Greek economy? Why don't the other EU countries force Germany to pay us the reparations? Why do EU member states support the interests of Turkey, thus undermining the security and economy of Greece? Since Turkey is not a member of our union? The EU has destroyed Greece, taken our culture and impoverished us, made us poor, indebted us, made us poor. In the ideal future, the export of olive oil will be stopped and it will be used exclusively for our domestic needs! a basic food product that has been part of the Greek diet since ancient times cannot possibly be inaccessible to indigenous and native Greeks because of its repulsive price and scarce stocks because it is sent to northern europe and not only, which does not even have it in its food culture due to its geographical and climatic nature. the northerners have butter instead of oil. So let it stay exclusively here in Greece at a low price so that we can all consume it and not be deprived of it. By then we will have signed our independence we will have left the european union the common european currency and nato. we will be a strong independent state without being subservient to foreign interests and without being a pawn of the mediterranean. You are a non-Hellenic barbarian. We will live according to the standards of Greek philosophy the only philosophy that is the origin of all the teachings and the basis of a healthy society and proper education which all the foreign universities of the world have undoubtedly adopted. It is the classic we provided food for thought for the creation of a healthy society and that all foreigners, after they had sufficiently exploited our culture, our arts, our sciences and so on, then they burned us down and unfortunately we were left stinking and they all, over-saturated and well-fed. A Greece against globalization. Stop the subsidy policy to have decent living conditions. We have seen that many families rely on the subsidy policy, have many children so that the state can support them instead of working; this is unacceptable because these families that adopt this way of life are dangerous for the future of society. You have children out of love and because you know that you can provide them with healthy conditions of upbringing and proper education you have them because you know that you can bring them up decently with your work and support them and not use them as a means for your laziness and so that they can support you with the luxuries and not only...an ideal future against globalisation
Teisinga ateitis
Teisinga ateitis
A better future would be if people did not lose sight of their intrinsic values. A world at peace, without poverty, without divisions between equals and unequals, without genderism, ecologies, etc. It is just a business to make money, but the real benefits are barely visible. It is just less littering, less cleaning up after ourselves, less buying unnecessary things, less deceiving people for television, social networks. Reducing the use of phones and other gadgets if it is not necessary. Humanity is running away from these things, children are not able to learn to read, to understand simple things, they do not have the words to describe things or actions because the screen shows everything for them. I would like to see that process of 'improvement' slowed down considerably or even stopped. And we could enjoy a full life in nature, interacting with people in person and not through social networks.
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