This is The Organic City, an entry originally posted on December 23, 2002 in the blog nebulose.net. In chronological order, before this was Valve. After this comes Miscellany. If you're lost, I recommend the about page.

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The Organic City

Certain places -- crowded shopping malls, bustling downtowns, airports, highways, seen from above -- always remind me of Patrick Farley's heart-rendingly poetic description of the future:

Bloated, curvaceous structures -- engineered by the same people who designed Corvette Stingrays and Yes album covers -- built out of shiny fiberglass, pristine chrome, and pulsating neon light -- Tomorrow's city would be a Space Age coral reef, teeming with millions of funky life forms, its limitless nooks and enclaves seething with parties, discos, arcades, and mind-blowing good times....

Everywhere I look I see hints of this organic metropolis to come. Each back-alley vendor, each hot dog stand, each bus stop and train station, is like a tiny coral polyp, capable of surviving on its own but also inextricably linked to the entire construct. Together they form something massive and dynamic, fractal in its infinite reef-like complexity.

This is the future I see.

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Vision of the future… ahh. Exactly my vision as well. No corners, just one flowing surface. Maybe it’s destroying the earth, but I definately think domed cities are going to be the future. Man, I definately want the future to come now.

Posted by Alex at December 23, 2002 3:20 PM :: Link

No use wanting. Each of us has a vision of the future, and we work to bring it about (or prevent it). I don’t know if Aa’s vision is meant as utopic or dystopic, or both. Is this the way you want it to be? I wouldn’t mind it.

I was in Times Square recently, looking at RNN’s giant liquid crystal display and all the massive screens and I said, this is how I want it to be. Not everywhere, but here at least, it’s good. I think I’m different from most people in this.

And, wait… Why the hell do we need domed cities?!

Posted by Kieran at December 24, 2002 2:25 PM :: Link

Duh, dude, because it’s a dome.

Come on, this one was obvious. I just threw it in because it’s a DOME!

Jetsons style, represent!

(holla back, young’n)

Posted by Alex at December 24, 2002 5:08 PM :: Link

Dude. The Jetsons lived in SPACE. Of course they needed domes.

Posted by Kieran at December 26, 2002 11:49 PM :: Link

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