Vision of a Sustainable Future
We all need to become the designers of a data-integrated and sustainable future. Here is a vision of the future I hope can inspire the professionals embarking on this quest. Feel free to drop your ideas in the comments. The Earth will only be as good a place as its people are.
City Structure:
Cities and spaces are re-architectured and redesigned to increase the efficiency of energy, waste management, and vertical agriculture is added to apartments. More sustainability art and sculptures that symbolize taking care of nature are built throughout the city. The public is educated on their impacts on the Earth, and therefore take the responsibility to keep it clean very seriously. For this part to happen, we need cultural change, and this cultural change can only be activated by people.
Agriculture:
Sustainable-first farms are deployed on a global scale and are become our primary source of sustenance, exerting a minimal impact on the natural world and leave space for forests to grow wild and diverse. All while providing us with the high-tech fruits and vegetables we need to keep living.
Energy:
Engineers have made cognitive and microscopic breakthroughs and are now able to capture and use a higher percentage of solar and other forms of energy. This implies that scientists and engineers discovered a new material configuration from the table of elements. The engineers kept utilizing AI and running tests, and they’ve found solutions by writing new programs and doing better mathematics. Old energy processes were replaced by the new solutions at high velocities, with altruistic funding from the world’s most resourceful companies. Gas-powered devices have all been taken to factories and repurposed. Wind energy has also become more efficient. Carbon dioxide is reduced. If we’re “lucky”, new forms of energy are discovered.
Sustainable Restrictions:
Businesses around the globe have stepped up and created many powerful borders to protect forests, rivers, and coral reefs. This has facilitated the rise of biodiversity and a system has been built with specific limits on hunting and fishing.
Humans prioritize purchasing sustainable products. Everyone on the ignorance checklist has been convinced that we have to regulate what we do with the Earth, because everyone has understood that overconsumption destroys ecologies. People comprehensively understand the mechanics of Earth: tides, soil dynamics, and everything else, so all parties in business have adapted accordingly.
Waste Management:
I imagine a world where people are disciplined about placing trash in the can. Maybe underground tunnels carry trash to facilities, and street robots have been designed and funded to pick up whatever falls through the cracks.
Conclusion
Think of Sustainability designs for the future, and leave some in the comments or share these with your friends. Maybe your idea sparks the mind of an engineer and one of the obstacles on our way to a sustainable future is overcome. The faster we can get to a future with effective principles, the happier we’re going to be.