I actually like these ideas. With all of the mega city, tiny homes talk, i like the idea of having tech to help me live outside of the cities

3 years later, we pretty much live the life he's describing

I've been an urban refugee for decades now, from NYC to a little town in West Virginia, Fantastic move! I'm rich, in that, I have a 5000sq ft house on 3 acres, 10,000 ft of studio spaces for my artwork. We live, technically, "below the poverty line" but our family has a rich life style of comfort and plenty in a stress free, secure, aesthetic environment. With internet you have all the rich intellectual interaction you need and can reach out to the world to market your work. I really pity my friends still struggling and stressing in the city.

if you dont understand him speaking English. .. there is subtitles in English. . you have to use the technology!

Homes makes me lazy. I always like to come out of my home to become active.

There would still be the issue of land property. There are less and less homeowners and more tenants every year. Suddenly most people will live in the countryside because now wifi exists? You'd need to acquire a piece of land to do that, for starters. You'd need to own a vehicle to go from one point to another (because no mass transportatiin project is made if there is no mass population to justify it). This analysis is well intended, but narrow. Only focuses in the technological side of the problem, when in fact urban migrations happen for a whole variety of reasons. The decision of living in a city or in the country is only a decision for those who can afford it, as it always was.

He didn't cover the aspect of going to malls,(you can't try on clothes from online shopping) Or going out (you can't have a virtual beer at a bar)

One architecture that could work, is one where there is a city center where goods and services exist, surrounded by a semi natural environment. In this semi natural environment, there would be compounds where communities of friends and family would live together in respective dwellings, with some communal facilities. This would work because humans naturally live in small 50-150 people groups, but also, having the compounds somewhat isolated from each other throughout the semi naturalistic setting around those compounds would strengthen the feeling that your not in a city, allowing you to have these compounds a bit more densely packed than if you just had a traditional rural environment. Ideally, production would be automated, with goods being produced on the outer edge of the city, with goods that you need everyday being produced constantly, with other products being produced on demand.

I lived in a city for 2 years and it was great, everything was so close, and I dreamed of working from home like this. I thought it would be so much better and I moved back to my parents, started my own online company, and after a month I got sick of it. All of my friends from when I was growing up moved away, other people who went to work in an office had new work friends, and you just get left at home alone drinking. After a year and a half I started working in a bar in the city just for more of a social life, I now commute an hour there and an hour back every day to get into the city, and am trying to grow my own business enough just so I can move back. Socially it is the worst living in the country. Unless you have a great group of people that will be there forever it won't work, it's the hardest to meet new people

I live in a beautiful small country town for a fraction of the cost compared to the city...The technology available at this moment allows me to work from home ...More people like me are moving here every month..I can switch to offgrid and sell power back to the grid.

The only barrier I face keeping me from building my own home out in the woods is lack of decent internet for youtube, netflix, research and videogames casually. The average in my area is half that of the US. . Centurylink being the only ISP outside of city limits here (or very spotty high latency WISPs) won't even try to set up any new people. They've literally stopped taking new customers and refuse to connect anyone.

That meeting in VR really made me think of the city of light (the100) kinda creepy but cool ideas.

Good video!

so good,thanks

Having moved from ity to suburb to rural... not happening anytime soon. The net infrastructure simply is not keeping pace enought to make it happen

Isolating ourselves from each other even further with the help of technology.

how about internet speed? Which is probably one of the most important things to have, especially in the future let alone now.

1) it's easier to move goods than services. Maybe doctors will move to the country to serve the undeserved but you can't drone in an MRI machine but maybe sky ubers can fix that and bring the person to the MRI for a reasonable cost. 2) the country is not gonna be so country with more houses and technology being built. I think what you are going for is suburbs and I'd agree they are the perfect mix if you can afford it. Think we need to fix red lining and then, sure, everyone can have a happy life.

I live on the countryside in the Netherlands. But I think it's probably less remote than in the US.

Seeing how cities are growing and country sides being occupied by new houses being built every year, as the future grows nearer, the ideal country side living style is going to become increasingly difficult. I thought this talk was contradicting itself convincing more people to come to the country side even though this type of thinking is what is going to ruin country sides and create them into more small cities and towns. Just my thoughts, I could be wrong though... I'm only 16 after all.

Still takes large population hubs to make these ideas come to fruition. Some of the technology he discusses isn't ready to be used by all, especially those who didn't grow up with tech.

I'm tired of the city

Lady at 11m5s started thinking immediately!!

Didn't know Jimmy fallon did ted talks

Maybe the future will be like: there are full of robots that work automatically and few people repair them,and most people live in countryside or rural area or moon

I really wanted to be convinced by this argument but I don't see wants relating to point 1 and point 3 ever being completely satiated by technology combined with a country lifestyle. Social media is not a rich social life, and jobs form where people come together in person.

Erm....what about schools? Good private high schools and universities are generally in the cities.

After some time...... When everyone moves on.. even this so called countryside, rural area becomes city.. Cz u make it that way by the end.. But the concept is good.. 😊👍🏼

Give me a home with a confortable couch, a stocked frig, a microwave and unlimited wi-fi, and I can live anywhere... Not sure about work do.

Actually what tigger urbanization during the industrial revolution was the systematic stripping of rural common lands from the public and subsequent indenture of the people to feed the machine of industry. It wasn't that people were drawn to cities, people were carved out of rural landscapes and crushed by ever diminishing access to their only source of livelihoods and with no options left, they were cornered and offered one escape hatch: the city. It was intentional, and not something we should gloss over.

power and other utilities, including sanitation, are first concern.

Enhancing problems through technology. Priceless

I'd really ratjer not have the cities ( and the people in them) empty out into the countryside....that would be horrible. Literally the last thing I would want.

Hmmm pretty useful

What if somebody shoot the drone down and steal my stuff?

Will it also give me the benefits of "urban youth"?

But how can you provide service like plumbing, electrical and civil telepathically. This diaspora is not going to happen anytime soo. But instead, with improvement in transport technology we will see cities expanding and merging with nearby cities to become mega cities in future.

Tablet on a stick? LMAAAOOOO how did this guy get on a Ted Talk

algum br?

Why do people assume that the whole world is the USA?

There remains the issue of trying clothes/shoes for e-commerce...

2020...

You will be amazed in 2020...

But office jobs are not the only city jobs...

So many people complaining about him being hard to understand, and I'm here like, uh, do you have hearing problems? I mean no, he's not speaking _perfectly_ but anyone who speaks English should have to problem hearing the words, even if they're in an accent. Seriously people. I had NO problem understanding him, not once. If you wan't hard to understand, you should try talking on the headsets at my workplace!

Ahh the infancy of humanity I love it ;)

Calls sandeep maheshawri from india. he is a bigest motivation man

7 billion people in the countryside will not be countryside. It will be new cities.

He missed a major determining factor to whether or not people will be able to enjoy "the benefits of city life anywhere". HIGH SPEED INTERNET! It just DOESN'T EXIST outside of cities...yet. I feel like if that can be remedied (and I suspect it will be), then this scenario will become more likely.

This guy is so high.

Virtual reality would be much more useful than Augmented reality for teleworking.

It's not pragmatic. I do not think the usage of VR/AR can really replicate all the presence of being in a city. Too many potential issues to think of. Much like an ideation of the future that inspires people in general.

I don't really know where this "countryside nirvana" exists; I live in the the biggest town in the state (180k ppl) South Dakota where the advantages he believes in simply don't exist. Yes, there are some little birds and butterflies surviving the insecticides that have been inundating the nearby crops for generations, leading to higher rates of new cancers occurring in the rural areas. There are no ballets, dance troupes, string quartets, debuts of Steven Reich music: no universities with departments that teach providers of experimental treatments, few farmers markets with fresh produce and lousy choices in the markets because it all ripened in transport. Forget about eating fish, the best of it is less than fresh or frozen or farmed; no originally ethnic food restaurants, the newspaper's stories revolve around the local industries and, if you can find the movie section, nothing shows that might upset the conservative Christian pov. Maybe your Shangri-la is on the civilized eastern areas but here, people are suspect of any change, demand things to be done the same old way, despise and fear city folk and uniformly long for the good old days when they were young, beat the war drums and support Trump. Higher education is thought to create snobs and unbelievers and those educated here move on quickly after graduation to where they can thrive, succeed and have peers.

Over Optimistic

Is he saying that future tech will affect population density in cities?

i thought that was me

subway sandwich in every village

This is this cat This is is cat This is how cat This is to cat This is keep cat This is an cat This is idiot cat This is busy cat This is for cat This is thirty cat This is seconds cat .. Now go back and read third word of each sentence ....

I've seen dystopias that started like this

before a 1000 views

Español de pura cepa xD

He's just talking about unban sprawl in conjunction from and with technology. He's trying without saying (because he isn't thinking it) that living off grid would be better. But urban sprawl isn't living off grid. In fact city living although creating social breakdown and all the whatnot that goes along with social decay. Actually is better because the infrastructure cost and impact to nature is lower. Not discounting the farmland lost to this technological (pffft) advancement. Technology advances and the intelligence declines. So, okay​ that guy who years ago said that he thinks life will evolve to the point where dinosaurs will again walk the earth while humans are here. Sounds like devilution. Not saying it's demonic. Just a different word for dis-evolving or devolving. Doesn't matter anyway stupidity always wins in the end because people ignore it as it trudges on in life collecting more stupid along the way. Until one big stupid thing grows right in front of your face. Things like religion, government, science (or as I call it, "evolved religion" ) popularity, crime and if you realized that education creates things that help the masses pollute and destroy more....then also education.

the son of Ricardo Montalbán

Does anyone hear how weird his voice sounds at 7:42

so social media will replace social interaction? lol

I love countryside and hate many aspects of city BUT he's sending me future 1984 or dystopies like that with a nice color. No thanks.

I think I found a new mentor. I would work for this guy. We have similar hopes for the future.

The only problem I see with these: your eyes will be crying for help...

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#notinAus #NBN

Moving people from an "office" to their home wouldn't eliminate carbon emissions, it would displace it. Also it could in fact make the issue worse. I would imagine that a single facility would use far less resources to provide everyone within with water, electricity, climate control, etc than it would take to do so individually for each remote location for everyone working from home.

Humans are bad for the environment its pretty obvious we should stay as far from it as possible. The main benefits of the City are that theres more people, being closer to services and better social life etc. De-urbanisation would be disastrous. This guy is biased, he works for UPS so it's in his interest for people to be further from goods and services so he can profit from the increased need for delivery services as opposed to people not needing delivery all the time cause the live near shops and businesses.

I think TED TALKS should not let people speak here in Substandard English. Pronunciation is a matter of choice. If a person speaks like this, how can I trust him? Shame on you, Ted Talks.

Poo

His accent is so annoying. He has a terrible problem in distinguishing /s/ and /S/!!!!!

What a boring speaker

Solid ideas, trash speaker

Wish this was a bit easier to understand, honestly. When I speak Spanish, French, German or Japanese my accent is absolutely spot on perfect to where people can't tell an English-is-my-first language person is speaking it. But I guess I'm the exception to the rule. I was just interested in hearing this and absorbing it and couldn't.