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<p>Glen sed:<br>
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cite="mid:b25f0819-c8b0-e2fd-b666-704893cc1c96@gmail.com"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/theline">https://www.neom.com/en-us/regions/theline</a>
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Pushed by a ruthless monarchy, funded by fossil fuels, bulldozing
indigenous lands, ... yikes.
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<p>And your linked advert for it! Looks like the Saudi's intend to
even change the laws of physics as well as other "softer ones" .<br>
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<p>The first reaction I had to the *positive* implications of "The
Line" was to reflect back on Paolo Soleri's Arcologies and then on
the flip side, the modern efforts to re-establish wildlife
corridors. I forget Soleri's claims about how many 1mile cube
Arcologies would be required to house all of humanity, but the
idea that we should retreat to our own little high-tech termite
mounds and leave the rest of the landscape for Gaia to "do her
thing". The idea of designing an entirely closed/self-contained
Arcology seems as futurist/fictional as "Generation Starships",
even with the technological advances since the 60s/70s when he was
rolling his ideas out. If such a vision succeeded we would
still be (almost literally) "a pox upon the land". I have a
vague memory of his aspiring to house 1M people in these
square-mile city footprints. That factors out to be 10B people
needing 10M such "hives" and 10M square miles of footprint. I
also remember 1 mile *cubed* but a mile-high building even with a
square mile footprint seems a bit over the top? I haven't read
this particular source, but found it while trying to answer my
questions above, and offer it to anyone else interested in the
conception:<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.organism.earth/library/document/arcology"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">
https://www.organism.earth/library/document/arcology</a> . <br>
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<p>BTW, have we discussed that James Lovelock died a few weeks ago
at age 103? Lovelock is dead, long live Gaia!<br>
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<p>Wildlife corridor return, includes billionaire tech
philanthropists (e.g. Bill Gates) buying up huge swaths of
farm/ranchland in the mid/west which (on reflection, naturally)
has the Red-State politicians and residents in a frenzy as the
"jobs" in their small towns go away and the Walmarts they already
allowed (colluded with?) to destroy their main streets are
downsizing/closing.<br>
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cite="mid:b25f0819-c8b0-e2fd-b666-704893cc1c96@gmail.com"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mojo.vision/mojo-lens/">https://www.mojo.vision/mojo-lens/</a>
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Unlike bin Salman, these guys seem well-intentioned. But sheesh. I
can't even imagine wearing that.
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<p>I am less averse to trying to learn to cope with contact lenses
which might be/provide portals into the "Metaverse" than I am into
trying to begin to decide what I actually want to allow to flood
into them. As we have been discussing here in the "News" thread,
it is hard to know how to curate one's own "News of the World"
with the (neccessary?) help of public/private media
institutions. <br>
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<p>Vernor Vinge's day-after-tomorrow-fictions often reference what I
think of as a f(r)actionation into virtual "Guilds" which were not
unlike what I imagine (fear) Fox News! and Democracy Now!
loyalists might become. BTW I am a fan of Amy and DN! but depend
on them/her to expose me to things and offer perspectives I
wouldn't find easily elsewhere, but have friends who I swear won't
watch/or listen/or read anything that didn't originate with Amy.
Maybe they value their time/energy more than I do? I certainly
know too many people whose televisions have only one channel (Fox)
and do not have a working mute, much less off control.<br>
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