This is a YouTube video titled "Our planet in 100 years with Thomas Kostigen" containing a monologue or interview-style talk from June 18, 2021. Thomas Kostigen discusses future urban living, population shifts, sustainable city designs, and technological advancements expected in the next century, focusing on environmental stewardship and efficiency. The content is a single-speaker presentation without Alicia Mackey Huber involved.
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Bulletproof radio, a state of high performance. So if we were to become stewards of the planet, Thomas, take us a hundred years from now. What would the planet look like if we enacted the things that you've discovered in your book? I end the book this way. So it leads toward a city of the future. You know, we look at cities as something that, you know, we've kind of fleed from most recently, but we will eventually go back to that type of communal living because we don't have much of a choice. Population growth, of course, is the big missing element that we haven't discussed here going forward. And the centers of population are going to change dramatically to Northern Africa, to the mena, Middle East, North Africa cities as Africa and the developing world starts to industrialize and become more a part of world trade, et cetera. We're going to see centers of population grow more and more there and into Asia. So I look at a place that Norman Foster, who is a friggin genius architect, put together just outside of Abu Dhabi in a place called Master City that is intentionally going to be the city of the future. There's another one called Neom being built in Saudi Arabia. And basically it's off grid with a lot of efficiencies built into what people do on a daily basis, how they do it, and being smart about how we go about our daily lives, but not ignoring the past. And that's really important. So you'll have artificial cars, you'll probably have flying cars. We're going to have buildings that are closer together in order to keep a little bit of shading within cities themselves. Less dark surfaces, more light surfaces, completely off the grid, powered by solar and wind. And then we'll have our food sources much closer to our cities. So we're not importing food that's 1500-1700 miles away in order to get on our dinner plate and seeing 50% of the food wasted along the way. So I think we're going to have a completely different idea of what food is by then that will probably be much more genetically modified. And I know that's a scary proposition for people, but that's the way it's going to feed the population by then. And we're going to have a lot more efficiencies. And that's really important built into our everyday life. So we'll be tagged and we'll be able to, you know, get on our bicycles and you know, be able to pedal away and not have to worry about red lights because the lights will turn green. You said will be tagged. What does that mean? Yeah, so I think there's going to be a lot more smart tagging on our phones or, you know, even, you know, body technology that will wear. Wearable technology that I'm sure you've heard about.
