Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future

We are all already living in a planetary city, a distributed mega structure hiding in plain sight.

the path towards Planet City runs through political revolution. The paradox of Planet City is that at the current rate of social change, by the time the need for Planet City has fully dawned, the political and financial capacity to build it may be too far eroded to realise it.

If you are asked to imagine a future city, you are bound to think of its transport, its buildings or its public spaces, not the invisible patterns that may explain much more about its character. The discipline of imagining physical things can be extremely creative, and today’s architects are at the forefront of thinking through how to live entwined

It is designed to be an antidote to fatalism—to remind us that other worlds are possible.

We need to see ourselves as part of a symbiotic, greater whole and start planning for a “long now” that looks deep into the future. This means changing the storytelling formula […] so that the main character is no longer the human but instead our planet.

It reveals a change of vision over the decades, from dreams of tomorrow to dreams of technologies that should already have been with us.