[Guest Post] Are "City Buildings" the Future of Human Living Space?

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For the best part of the last 30 years, super tall skyscraper “city buildings” have been envisioned and even fully planned and designed by many organisations the world over. Although none of these have yet to fully come to fruition in terms of housing permanent residents, whose every need can be met within one building – in theory meaning they would never have to leave the construction – there are a number of multi-use skyscrapers around the world that indicate what we can expect if such a building is ever built.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of such buildings, and will the increasing global population reach a point where such constructions are necessary to avoid global overcrowding?

[Guest Post] What will the planet look like in 100 years?

Last week, my PC decided to give up the ghost on me. What does this have to do with the future I hear you ask? Well, as a back-up, my flat-mate dug out his iMac (circa 1999), and it got me thinking. The design, software and functionality of it seemed ancient when compared to modern Macbooks, yet there has only been 13 years in between the two. What then would the world be like in 100 years of further technological advancement, human expansion and, inevitably, depleting resources? How would buildings look, what would we be eating, how would we get around, and would we still be here?

Image courtesy: Telegraph.co.uk

In 100 years, the earth will be a very different and probably unrecognizable place. With the Russians suggesting that human immortality is only 45 years away, the human population exploding at an unmanageable rate, and the livability of vast areas of our planet decreasing by the year, Earth is in dire need of some radical change!