How different can things get by 2100? Prediction site Metaculus attempts to ponder what a fundamental change to the human condition would be like. Nick Bostrom, philosopher and Founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford, argues that only two events since the dawn of humanity have fundamentally changed the …
The official purchasing power parity (PPP) statistics say that China’s PPP GDP is $24 trillion, but people can buy 30% more than those figures indicate. Reviewing cost of living data and living in China videos indicates that China’s PPP GDP is $31 trillion. There are now comprehensive online comparisons of costs between global cities. This …
China is integrating multiple cities into megacity regions. China has deployed regional integration plans in 2019. They are accelerating integration of the YRD (Yangtze River Delta – Shanghai area) region, Greater Bay Area (Around Hong Kong and Guangdong), or Jing-Jin-Ji (Beijing-Tianjin) region, are seen as a solution to this problem. To integrate the YRD region, …
Boring Tunnel is Elon Musk’ company that is working to revolutionize tunneling and public transportation. Boring Company has been building their system around the Las Vegas Convention Center and has approval to expand the system to the Vegas Strip, downtown and the airport. At the Vegas planning meeting, Boring Company engineers indicated that this would …
Elon Musks Boring Company is making progress extending its first tunnel from the Las Vegas convention center to the first Casinos on the Vegas strip. During typical peak hours, driving from the Las Vegas Convention Center to Mandalay Bay, for example, can take up to 30 minutes. The same trip on Vegas Loop will take …
Special use permit applications and Design Review applications have been started for the Boring Company Las Vegas Loop system. The Boring Company Vegas Loop will be underground tunnels stretching as far north as downtown Las Vegas, throughout the Strip corridor, and as far south as the Allegiant Stadium, pending approval later this week by the …
French architectural studio, Rescubika, proposes skyscraper that would be the tallest building in New York. The building design is called Mandragore and it would be a 2400-foot-tall tower. It would have a lot of trees and plants that would trap carbon emissions and reduce carbon in the atmosphere. However, Rescubika has not been getting many …
This is summarized information from Calfire on the major fires around the San Francisco bay area. Major fires are only barely being contained. If weather and luck go against the fire fighting then entire cities within the San Francisco bay area could end up being destroyed. The fires are large enough and close enough that …
The 22 wildly successful Marvel movies led up to Avengers Infinity War and Avengers Endgame with the villain Thanos. This article will discuss the plan that Thanos had and why the plan was stupid as well as evil. This article will have some spoilers. The movies are over a year old and are completely fictional …
The Institute for Health Metrics (IHME) at the University of Washington has modeled forecasts for each state and the USA. The forecasts and models were run two days ago. They forecasted deaths, ventilator needs, ICU beds and hospital beds and shortages. The US will need between 130,000 and 480,000 hospital beds. The most likely is …
Which are the US cities that will have the most serious problems with coronavirus COVID-19 after New York? Newark, New Jersey is included with the New York Metro area. Detroit has 1000 cases with metro population 4.3M and 50% of tests are positive New Orleans has 1200 cases with metro population of 1.2M and 15% …