MASS NO TIFIC A TION


MASS NO TIFIC A TION FOR CITIES OF THE FUTURE


TO AN ISLAND NEAR YOU COULD BE COMING by Nicholas Kleanthous, Marketing Manager, Yudu


Over the past thirty years, conceptions of how cities will look in the future have been a common theme both in fictional media and speculative non-fiction.


By Richard Stephenson, CEO & Chairman, Yudu


A recurrent technological motif in virtually all of these works of future urbanism draws upon our ever-increasingly networked world to posit the idea that future-cities, and perhaps digitally advanced islands, will be interconnected in a previously unprecedented way. The internet age gave these ideas form and function, in that they are imagined to be powered by big-data systems that simultaneously manage diverse areas of city management such as traffic-lights, traffic flow (through self-driving autos), subway systems to which


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hese range from the outright fantastical (consider the concept of arcologies that arose among Japanese architects in the 1980s, fashioned in response to the sprawling nature of metropolitan Tokyo), to more reality-grounded dystopian imaginings such as Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.


areas should receive priority attention from law-enforcement. Simply put, as technology expands the remit of possibility, what was once the realm of fiction becomes more tangible and feasible.


One particular area of speculative urbanism that has become significantly more “tangible” in this sense is mass communication, underlined by the highly sophisticated, digital infrastructure that has emerged over the past few decades.


These communication systems are growing increasingly ubiquitous and advanced enough that they can inform city residents of a wide array of highly diverse information, from weather and traffic warnings to spikes in criminality in particular areas – these systems would work in tandem with electronic boards on roadsides, connected road-barriers and more.


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