Posted on 08/27/2022 12:34:27 PM PDT by Twotone
What does the city of tomorrow look like? For billionaire Marc Lore, it’s eco-friendly buildings constructed from scratch and spread across some 150,000 acres in the Southwest desert.
Lore, 51, has recently released details for his “Telosa” metropolis — Telosa being a name derived from the Greek word for “highest purpose,” Axios first reported.
It’s one of nearly a dozen proposals across the world aiming to build sustainable and ultra-modern cities from scratch that seem more science fiction than reality.
For Lore, Telosa will encompass 36 districts across a swath of Nevada, Arizona or Utah.
It will be home to 50,000 “diverse” people by 2030. Everything they need will be located within a short walk — though, should vehicles be needed, they’ll be electric and autonomous — and every building will be green-minded with rooftop panels creating renewable energy.
“We’re not just building a new city — this is a new model for society,” said Lore at a Telosa town hall meeting in July, adding that Telosa will also be “equitable” to all.
That said, he added it will be governed by “equitism,” which Axios notes appears to be a mix of democracy, capitalism and socialism.
Bjarke Ingels, the Danish architect, is behind the design. Renderings show angular towers topped with trees, multiple greenhouses, landscaped parks with walkways and exercise areas, and buildings whose large terraces look out to city and landscape views.
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Exactly. For much of history the southwest has been very dry. Only the last few centuries have been wetter. Now it’s going back to its normal dry.
[“We’re not just building a new city — this is a new model for society,” said Lore at a Telosa town hall meeting in July, adding that Telosa will also be “equitable” to all.
That said, he added it will be governed by “equitism,” which Axios notes appears to be a mix of democracy, capitalism and socialism.]
Oh yeah, sounds great. What could possibly go wrong?
This time will be different.
In six months they’ll be eating each other.
You DO realize what that is shorthand for....right?
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Yes, I do. But if they bankrupt themselves with more utopian failures, maybe they’ll realize their ideas are bupkiss, & figure out they may need us after all.
“ I bet this city will contain no churches.”
I’m sure you’re right. Or home schooling.
It seems this would be just fine with it’s computers, solar power and autonomous cars roaming the streets. No need to pollute it with actual humans.
Another future tourist stop for ecotravellers.
From where are 50,000 extra people going to get their water? Unicorn farts???
Yes, and the fantasyland seems to have a lot of out-of-place vegetation.
I didn’t see any black folks and it looks like the people just stand around talking. That arena in the center is probably like the Thunderdome.
Nothing like that would stay looking like a utopia very long.
Nature only finds a way when there is adequate entropy.
Uh, what happens to the non-diverse people?
LOL, without us unclean masses providing them resources they will have nothing to eat but each other.
50,000 people is not a city.
Where are they getting their building materials? Using solar only to build the place?
I figure there will be some argument half way through the building process. The money will run out and people will behave badly. The whole thing will be one of those ruins that never gets built, just sits in the desert while the litigation slowly waddles alone using up every last cent of the billionaires money on lawyers who never really want to come to a conclusion.
I thought the same thing. I was about to post:
Oh, sh¡t. Are they bringing Watoga to life? I mean, they should just play Fallout if they wanna see how that turns out...
Or just watch Westworld.
Where ya gettin’ the water Marc?
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