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112 The vertical city

They are difficult to transmit to following gene-
rations in their present state and, what’s more, they
reflect old values that are not consistent with their own
new values.

We must thus begin to manage the issues of scarcity
of agricultural and natural territories more energetically,
just as we had to accept to do so for potable water and
energy only twenty years ago.

Let’s dream a bit: the cost of “green” spaces will inevi-
tably increase more rapidly than that of construction.
It will become economically advantageous for a lan-
downer to restore present asphalt and concrete sur-
faces or those presently occupied by low-level dwellings
to nature, as their residual value will diminish.

Market forces will naturally lead to the pragmatic
acceptance of the vertical city, also in western countries.

Cultural acceptance will probably follow on the evo-
lution of society in the third cultural revolution NBIC.

To only evoke the “I” (information technology),
decentralization and information exchange and human
activities that follow on it will accelerate at the rhythm
of the number of operations per second of our IT
servers 5.

It will free us from innumerable useless journeys, the
costly networks they require, and enable the decentrali-

5 This number was 1.000 (103) in 1950, 1.000.000 (106) in 1964, 109 in
1986, 1012 in 1998, 1015 in 2007, and will probably reach 1018 in 2018, 1021
in 2929, and perhaps 1024 (one million billions of billions) in 2037, that
is to say: tomorrow!