The world inside
In 2381, the highly regulated life at the giant building known as Urbmon 116 may seem ideal, but some residents are experiencing dangerous dissatisfaction.
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What Hacker News says
- This is similar to the world from the nov The World Inside by Silverberg. Very good book, I recommend it!
- Interesting that they took out the hospital/clinic ? Seems like it would be useful. In the US there are 'golf course to the grave' type communities for adults who want to go smoothly from the 50's into the afterlife. And when I was a teen I read Silverberg's book "The World Inside"[1] which postulated the "Urbmon" a complete community in a single structure. That has always fascinated me, the question of "Can you build a carbon neutral self sustaining human community?" I presume you can but how effective would it be? The Barbican looks like an interesting take on mixed use.
- This sort of utilitarian calculus isn’t even believed by utilitarians. Simply having more people doesn’t make the world better (or worse.)
This comment reminds me of the Robert Silverberg novel “The World Inside” where the world is dominated by a belief that reproduction is the highest good.
- There's reference in Robert Silverberg's "The World Inside" of prompting the database in reference to knowledge workers. The phrase/wording paraphrased was "...needed to word it just right to get the information from the system"...
- Add to that The World Inside novel, by Robert Silverberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Inside).
