Tokyo’s Floating City of the Future

It sounds like sort of a human ant hill.

This sounds like a very good idea and i believe it will be the wave of the future. If this idea works out it should provide a way for entire city's to be built where now you can only place a land fill. This could be one step closer to a world wide goverment and a true unity that willl save the planet and propel us to the stars

It's a good analogy. It's not the right one. It looks a bit like the Borg ships in Star Trek - the next generation. Then, the world now has portable communicators and, according to Stephen Hawking, warp drive is not too far away.

Beam me up, Scotty.

"Beam me up, Scotty."

I think not!

"You will be assimilated! Resistance is futile!"

wow thats great....i wonder how human living thats day

As I commented on the "Hyper City" concept, two words: population control.

Tokyo Floating Cities. Buckminster Fuller proposed megacities for 2,000,000 people housed in tetrahedon structures with 2 mile edges. These would either float in triangular canals and be protected somewhat from earthquakes, or could move any where by sea, making really good moveable harbours. There is a lot more detail about this idea somewhere, but I have not found it yet. Bucky also went on to propose immense spherical geodisic structures that could support communities drifting above the ground or tethered in place, bouyancy being supplied by the temperature differential across the exterior membrane. He died in 1983 and these concepts were offered during the seventies, I believe. Of course, he was way ahead of the times and considered a bit whacky by people who should have either known better, or kept their ill considered opinions to themselves.

It would be nice if great original thinkers were mentioned when writing about developments based on their ideas, even if they are dead and gone.

Well, this is quite a jump from Providence, Rhode Island being built on top of a river...

Kind of reminds me of the Matrix; at least with all the humans in the metal "trees"

I'm going to stay here on solid ground for the time being...

I like the idea of eliminating vehicles. I would hate to see rush hour inside the pyramid though - we would have to keep our "road rage" to ourselfs

Looks like an attractive target for a terriorist.

I wonder what there is out there that could prove to be a truly permanent flotation solution. I mean everthing out there thatI know of fatigues, corrodes or ages in some way. With all that sticking out of the water (think of an iceberg people) there's a lot going on under the surface. The deeper these under sea bits are the more pressure they're subject to. So we're talking about flotation that must be structurally sound while in the combined pressure and sea environment. It's not like you could ever relocate a million people and pull this thing into a dry dock for some patch work and a paint job.

I like many of the concepts behind this but think that floating is a bit much.

the fact is that if you search for more information about this mega-city you'd find out that it is not a floating city.

Its obvious, there are three options for human colonization; land,water,space... Water is the next logical and next easiest place to do it. The only doubts if any are making it just as safe or more safe than living on land, which nowadays can be just as deadly. Of course a floating city would be great as long as we can make it work. The topic descusion for this blog should not be weither or not this idea can work. But how can it work and if the technology to do so can be made...

On a more constructive note mankind would be better off putting their minds to getting great things like this done and giving idea's rather then replying to this blog with small talk.

I think this is creepy and if this is the future, I dont like the look of it.