Future megacities: slums and surveillance cameras
In 2007, a landmark event occurred. For the first time in human history, the population of cities exceeded the population of rural areas. In the future, the population of earthlings will stabilize in the region of 9–10 billion people, but cities will continue to swell like bubbles until 90–100% of the world's population relocates to them. Experts draw such a perspective to us.
The largest city in the world today is the capital district of Tokyo with a population of 35.2 million people. However, recently the growth of the Japanese capital has slowed somewhat. Records of demographic growth in the future belong to such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai and Dhaka.
Overcrowding, rising crime, pollution, congested infrastructure, housing shortages are the main threats to our cyberpunk future.
By 2030, 5 billion of the 8.1 billion people on Earth will live in cities. Billions will live in slums, but the rest will not be easy.
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Cory Doctorou argues what it is like to live in a tech metropolis full of surveillance cameras when you are not alone for a second. Corey asked his Japanese friends why there are so many people in surgical masks in the Tokyo subway, are they so afraid of getting infected with something or a bacteriological attack? No, they answered him, the reason is different. People instinctively want to protect themselves from constantly scanning their own face. They want to hide emotions from outsiders, they want to protect their face with an impersonal mask. This is a completely natural desire.
Surveillance cameras only breed crime, says Doctorow. Lazy police now no longer get out of their cars, relying on the omnipresent cameras, so that no one can put the criminals. The more advanced the cameras become - the lazier the cops become.
via Forbes
The largest city in the world today is the capital district of Tokyo with a population of 35.2 million people. However, recently the growth of the Japanese capital has slowed somewhat. Records of demographic growth in the future belong to such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai and Dhaka.
Overcrowding, rising crime, pollution, congested infrastructure, housing shortages are the main threats to our cyberpunk future.
By 2030, 5 billion of the 8.1 billion people on Earth will live in cities. Billions will live in slums, but the rest will not be easy.
')
Cory Doctorou argues what it is like to live in a tech metropolis full of surveillance cameras when you are not alone for a second. Corey asked his Japanese friends why there are so many people in surgical masks in the Tokyo subway, are they so afraid of getting infected with something or a bacteriological attack? No, they answered him, the reason is different. People instinctively want to protect themselves from constantly scanning their own face. They want to hide emotions from outsiders, they want to protect their face with an impersonal mask. This is a completely natural desire.
Surveillance cameras only breed crime, says Doctorow. Lazy police now no longer get out of their cars, relying on the omnipresent cameras, so that no one can put the criminals. The more advanced the cameras become - the lazier the cops become.
via Forbes
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/10809/
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