Will we ever have cities looking like this?

>>9089227
Yea, minus the flying cars and random vertical lines though. Some cities probably already look like that.

no, we are nearing the great stagnation

>>9089227
No, flying cars are a complete meme. Well unless they're autonomous. But even then they're probably still a meme.

>>9089231
why no flying cars though?

>>9089241
They might not be a meme on other planets

No, in fact our future cities will probably look less futuristic than they do now. Developers are slowly realising that skyscrapers don't make economic sense most of the time.

>>9089256
Future cities will be massive suburbs.

>>9089227
No. This is technozombie delusion.

>>9089231
>random vertical lines
They're radio towers so you can listen to punk rock anywhere anytime, brainlet.

>>9089256
>>9089269
>not commieblocks and factories on every corner

>>9089241
if we ever figure out how to shield against gravity they wouldnt be a meme

>>9089256
are you trolling? all of the data on urban planning agrees that suburbs are garbage and building a stacked mega city is the way to go

>>9089318
>shield against gravity
What
Didn't know one of the four fundamental forces was an issue.

>>9089227
It depends, those cities won't exist if the govt keeps getting in the way of technology and industry with regulations because of muh global warming.

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>>9089242
First, a few assumptions: perfect AI is available (no mistakes, no traffic), economics don't matter (cheap plentiful fuel), being limited to short range is acceptable (there must be limits to energy density), and these are not simply fixed wing aircraft or helicopters that require air fields at every destination. I'd actually only argue about public safety. Any failures while flying around in ultra dense cities will be catastrophic, so probably the small amount of time that could be saved taking an air shortcut wouldn't be worth the potential for many deaths. Compare that to ground transport where death would be avoidable in nearly any situation.

>>9089269
>>9089256
They'll largely be like Tokyo. An endless sprawl of 5-15 story buildings with a good helping of mega towers smattered in. However, they'll have considerably more green space then OP's picture and there will be a lot of focus put on street level retail (or I guess it'd be more fair to say pedestrian level because I don't expect the ground to stay home to human foot transit).

>>9089339
>da gubmint
Trumptard logic, everyone.

>>9089322
>cities must be either American style suburbs or a bunch of skyscrapers
The world's most livable cities look like neither.

>>9089380
Nice argument, retard.

>>9089232
you mean the great collapse

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More along the lines of this with more giant projected advertisements and smart windows.

>>9089366

airplanes are already more mechanically reliable than cars, and ground transport kills people all the time

why on earth would ground transport automatically be safer. also cars are a death trap and kill thousands every year but everyone is fine with that, why wouldn't you be fine with it when you're also getting the advantage of air travel?

>>9089663
ever thought to yourself that maybe getting a pilots license is a little more tricky then getting your drivers license mate?

>>9089677
So? Anyone can learn to fly those things, it doesn't take a genius.

>>9089703
But it does take $15000 and 300 hours of your time (for PPL not commercial)

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>>9089227
Asia already got cities looking like this.

>>9089242
we don't have superconducters

look at michio kaku

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>>9089232
this