Sam Altman hopes to create more affordable homes

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Sergey Brin and the "air" Internet

In 2015, Google began field testing Project Loon , a project to “distribute” high-speed Internet (LTE) from balloons. 300 of them were launched in Indonesia, where almost half of the population does not have access to the network. Google partners were three national telecommunications companies: Telkomsel, Indosat, and XL Axiata.



Further development of the project – in Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Puerto Rico, and Peru – is always accompanied by the support of telecoms.

" While I am optimistic about the potential of implementing technologies (artificial intelligence) to solve world problems, this path must be taken with great responsibility, care, and reconciliation. With great power comes great responsibility. " — Sergey Brin, founder of Google

Forecasts: LTE anywhere on Earth, and by 2028, if the technology can be adapted to airless space, perhaps even on the Moon.



"Smart" cities
Peter Thiel and "mobile" city-states

In 2008, programmer Patri Friedman and PayPal founder Peter Andreas Thiel founded the Seasteading Institute. Its goal is to build free communities, a kind of "independent cities on the water."

The institute is currently working on a pilot project with the government of French Polynesia. The Seasteading Institute plans to build 300 homes on a self-governing island with its own cryptocurrency, Varyon.

" Between cyberspace and outer space lies the possibility of colonizing the oceans . " — Peter Thiel

Initially, the founders of the project presented the floating city as a libertarian utopia, free from any regulation and taxes, but now the concept has changed. Joe Quick, the president of the organization, said that now an independent city on the water is perceived as a way to live in conditions of increasing sea levels with each century. Currently, billionaire Peter Thiel is not involved in the project.



Forecast: perhaps, in parallel with the development of space tourism on Earth, the problem of overpopulation will be partially solved by 2028: the World Ocean will become an alternative to living on land.

Venture capital and “new” cities

In August 2016, the venture capital fund Y Combinator, whose president is Sam Altman, became interested in the concept of “new” cities. Adora Chung and Sam Altman, in a speech on the official website of the New Cities project, emphasized that they seek to avoid developing another “crazy libertarian utopian city for techies.”

According to Chung, the startup will be based on the model of peru number data Shenzhen, a former fishing village that, thanks to foreign and government investment, has transformed into one of the most technologically advanced cities in the world in less than 40 years. In November 2016, Ben Ha became the project leader .

“ It’s hard to simply lay out and organize all the systems that go into creating a city. To call a city simply a system or a platform is to underestimate the complexity. I’m concerned about the scale of the problem, and we’re looking at different options for how to solve it. ” — Ben Ha

In parallel with his investment in New Cities, for residents of existing cities, such as his native San Francisco, using artificial intelligence.

Forecast: if the cities of the future are not floating, then they will definitely become technological.

Bill Gates and his "new" water

In 2015, a viral video of Bill Gates drinking water that had been filtered of impurities went viral. The purification process was carried out by Omni Processor, a plant supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Its main goal is to prevent diseases caused by water pollution.