Praha 2048 - Introduction :: Remember, remember, the velvet November


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Motto> Praha roku 2048 bude prahou mojich deti. Poletia vo vzduchu, pretoze auta uz nebudu ziadne. a ja im budem mavat zdola a oni budu na mna vyfukovat bublifuk, pretoze to je jedine, co z tohto desatrocia v dalsich generaciach pretrva.
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Fellow senators, Neighbors & observers, I greet Thou!

By a random lot I was chosen to become a top observer for Prague domain in year 2048. It is a Tradition which I'd not only like to follow but also assert to present a small report before another lot will be drawn and another top observer will be chosen. That's what I'll try to do. It will not differ much from the past reports, nor it is expected that the next one will differ from this one. At least that's what calculations show - we had reached a new equilibrium of a complex system. Brief but sufficient description of this equilibrium is subject of this report. Name of the complex system which reached the equilibrium is Prague Polis.

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I give these words upon the datasphere for she is eternal.

Observing the life of the city from my two observer positions at Tynsky palac, and from the Membrane vertice located directly above neolithic tantric stoned @ Vysehrad I started to feel stronger and stronger feeling or pride of myself being an observer at the top of this mighty Hierarchy.

More and more often I was telling to myself "this is my domain", more and more often I started to consider myself to be an essential cornerstone of a mighty cathedral of Life which was being built here. More and more my vetoes and decisions were driven by voice of personal arbitrainess and not by the Will of universe.

May pride never overcome me completely. May another observe the beauty I had observed, may another serve as an example for those lost.

May the one randomly chosen from amongst you will be Shepherd of Being with one feet in the the forrests of the past and one feet in the webs of the future.

Dear Senators, fellow Neighbors & observers, by these words please consider me dismissed:

I hereby start the minimax game for choosing my successor.

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6. Membrane

...may the sad ones never will.

Membrane protects - its primary function is to serve as a city wall of nanotech era. The policy of Prague is to be moderate in its security decisions, neither we overestimate possible terrific outcomes of nanotech, nor we underestimate them. We do not ban, but we are not naive. We are fully aware of a fact that compared to nanotechnological assembler replicators even the biggest enemies of humanity of the past like smallpox or plague look like children toys. Not only us, but Automata as well believe in goodness and beauty of an educated (wo)man and they assigned only very tiny probability of 0.06% to the possibility of conscious creation of a malign and agressive nanotech replicator by an engineer inside the city. But from their own experience with battling polymorphic computer viruses Automata are fully aware that "everything which replicates can mutate" and they assigned the probability of 5.8% to the the possibility that spontaneously emerged replicating nanorobot will get to the proximity of outside layer of the Membrane.

Such an "attack" occured for the first time this year. When Automata noticed that woods near Benesov u Prahy started to be literally decomposed into some kind of grey goo matter, all Entrances were hermetically closed and the outside layer was put into immune mode. Luckily, dangerous replicator wasn't able to penetrate through severe gamma ray radiation which is activated during immune mode and didn't even got to 10metres thick diamondoid inside layers of Membrana Major. May it never happen.

The secondary function of Membrane is simple - as I mentioned it defines what belongs to the city and what does not. Similiary "city regions" and "sub city regions" have their own membranes minor which specify their own scope and offer some basic protection. Such a non-fuzzy division of regions allows to have different social contract codes in different areas. As we all know, only thanks to this idea of having "spheres within spheres" Malesice weren't harmed by radiation release from one of theirs hotfusion reactors in 2044. All these membranes are more or less governed by Automata and they open themselves automatically in case anyone wants to enter or leave the region. Only 8% of them were expecting authorization for trespassing or saved passenger's identity data.

One can still live anonymous life in our Polis.

Membrane Major is transparent. Some older citizen live years under it and are not even aware of its presence - nothing blocks blueness of skies in touching one's eyes. Only during equinox sunsets do the small carbonic arms of tiny robots forming Membrane Major glitter in the air and create an emotion of unity, of one dome, for all the citizens who raise their heads toward heaven.

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5. Industry & Automatons

Sometimes dreams do become real...

For almost 3 decades, there is only one industry - and the name of it is nanotechnology. Any material which is allowed by the laws of nature can be built by putting atom to atom into a wanted structure. Day when "matter compilers" got public was the day when nanotechnology broke through into everyday life. Some families have matter compilers as big as microwave ovens, some are big as washing machines, and the richer ones have matter compilers as big as a garage - but in these no-car days there is almost no use for such big compilers - except that they can "compile" smaller ones. Every citizen has a right for 1kg of moieties daily from which 1kg of basic granulated food can be compiled in public matter compilers (PMC).

Matter compiler is given a pre-scription, a recepy, a computer file which describes an atomic structure of resulting product. Similiarly as 3d printers of the past, this compiler afterwards puts atoms or molecular moieties into right order, thus forming a wanted thing. It takes the moieties from The Feed. The Feed is a network of diamondoid pipes which are spread underneath the City. What veins are for a body is a Feed network for a City. There are 2 different types of Feed pipes - vessels and arteries. Vessels bring pure and clear moieties to the matter compiler from the regions of Automata. Arteries bring all "decompiled" garbage from matter decompilers to the regions of Automata. In the regions of Automata machines care for transformation of "polluted" complex molecules from decomiled products into pure simple atomic building blocks which are again circulated into the vessels of The Feed.

Only few cryptographers know details about the processes which are being performed in the region of Automata. Human beings serve more like observers than masters and managers for it is almost impossible for an unenhanced human being to take into account complexity of processes going on. Very rarely does one of the cryptographers - accroding to the voice of spirit of intuition - influence the process.

Not only are machines responsible for the transportation of Matter within our city - roots of this process may be tracked down to the past century!- their analysis direct flow of money within the financial sphere. They are as well responsible for creation and distribution of Energy -at Smichov, Malesice and Stara Boleslav fusion reactors are fully operational in highly protected environments.

Automata are as we1ll responsible for the function of The Membrane.

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4. Nature, Sport , Culture

...it is virtually impossible to predict in detail which alternatives will become technically feasible over any longer interval of time. Why? Simply because if one could see ahead that clearly, one could probably accomplish those things in much less time - given the will to do so...

A.C.Clark quoted by Marvin Minsky

When automobiles & whole consumer culture started to head towards extinction after nanotechnology breakthrough, it was advised by Automata, approved by Senate and not vetoed by the top observer that especially shopping centres, their parking spaces and highways should be left as they are for as long as possible without any order-bringing intervention of human hand. All Prague dogs were invited to these places instead. Humans accepted the proposal and in few years thick dust mixed with the decomposed excrements and formed soil basis. The next year spring few spots of grass blades broke through asphalt, and later first tree and a flower started to fight for existence.

Only when the trees were as tell as a (wo)man did the Automata gave a new resolution - "go and make gardens out of it". In few years "Prague forrests & gardens" company became one of most economically successfull entities in Prague domain. Currently there are 735245 dogs and 38923 horses living in the urban areas and 28954 deers and 190783 rabbits living freely in the wilderness units located within the scope of Membrane. Vineyard arch above past Magistrala all the way from Pankrác until Vltava is one favorite tourist attractions of our city - 104820 adult women and 92509 adult men, mostly students, took part in the Dionysian feasts this May. While not very much "politically correct" towards more orthodox citizens of our Polis, such an event is considered to be much more natural release of an elane-vitale force than destructive demonstrations of the past.

In the era of Automata & The Feed where basic food, habitation and energy needs are provided , the most important quest for a (wo)man is extending the amount of knowledge and beauty. Thus, Culture & Education plays a very important role in our city - 13% of adult citizens are employed in the areas responsible for Education and even more - 15% are investing their time into extension of Art & Culture . Because many of these roles intersect, we may say that 1/4 of active population of Prague is profesionally dedicated to Beauty.

Sport is understood in an anthique way as a subset of Culture. During past decades many new types of sports emerged as a result of technological inovations - only the introduction of WIN.G itself and its combinations with a bicycle, ball, tennis rockets brought to this day 7 new forms of Sports which are accepted by International Olympic Comittee. Prague was lucky to organize Olympic Games in 2032 and has a highly advanced facilities for many professional types of sports. After few years of stagnation rock climbing on artificial walls is going through its Renaissance - this may be a result of transformation of past communist concrete blocks into more trustable structures as mentioned in part 2. Balancing on the ropes is also very common.

Group sports are still popular and are still source of "tribal behavior" especially within the city regions. During my function period as a top observer I directed as much financial currents as I was allowed towards WIN.G.DANCE festival. From my dwelling in the tower of Tynsky palac I could observe three hundred thousand human voluntees - 42 of them with Pegasus! - forming marvelous symmetry of patterns above the city.

I witnessed a strong convergence between the Sport and Spirituality during June Yogic days under cupola of Strahov Stadium and at Letna. It was a mighty ritual - but not the only one for sure. Rituals and chants of many different religious communities and sects may be observed almost any time here or there.

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3. Transport

...one early Ford advertisement tried to persuade the public by an argument "by using our model T you can get to countryside fast and enjoy fresh air immediately !"...

quotation from one ecological magazine

From this year, there are no gasoline stations in Prague. The last one was bought by some merry prankster and transformed into "Museum of Idiocy". Veterans of old times land in the garden nearby there, hold a pump hose , have a good inhale of gasoline fragrance , discuss forgotten times with friends and buy a ticket when leaving. There are interesting debates going on among scholars about "why were automobiles such powerful tech-species that they caused such an disturbing change in environment which resulted in extinction of thousands of natura-species?". While many emphasize the role of addiction and "different state of consciousness" driver felt when (s)he was riding, others focus on strong territoriality within car's shell , general agreement is mostly achieved about thesis that "an automobile was a tech-specie maladaptation exploiting man's will to power".

Automobiles were a blind branch of an evolutionary tree, they simply haven't survived (wo)man's ascension towards sky, and (wo)man's mind was the host automobile concept parasited upon. But one day, when all the essential conditions were met, (wo)man decided to become an angel and started WIN.G project.

WIN.G in itself was not at all an act of genius. It was just a small little step Culture takes when it evolves. It was not revolution, but evolution. The basic idea was - (wo)man can fly - and this idea was more based upon an observation of airplanes than upon some vision of an angel. It was said "Yes, (wo)man can fly, if (s)he knows how to master the matter, energy and information".(S)he mastered the matter by nanotechnology and received gift of carbon nanotubes,(s)he mastered energy and received the gift of hydrogen,(s)he mastered silicium and received the gift of processed information.(S)he thought about them, mixed them in proper ratio, told about it to the others and obtained WIN.G.s

Main concepts of WIN.G & pre-scripts are available for download on the Net so anyone can download them. If (s)he has an access to The Feed (s)he can compile the pre-scripts in his matter compiler and have his own WIN.G copy almost immediately. There are some corporate based models - Škoda Dodá for example - with additional hard-to-copy-without-knowledge features. Any child is donated basic model of WIN.G at the age of six, but the possibility to turn off some autopilot functions is given to only those who pass special cognitive test in the age of 23years - this numeric constant is rooted in the Prague Ecological Protocol and we consider it seriously . WIN.G "hack" modifications with autopilot completely turned off exist and are publicly available, but the person which would be found flying without an autopilot turned off in the domain of Prague will immediately be deported on the opposite side of Membrane, will be unregistered from the citizen database and will never legally cross the city Membrane again.

With everyone having autopilot turned on, WIN.G is thousand times more safer than 2dimensional traffic of past century. Only 5 deaths and 49 injuries occured this year in our domain and all of them were caused by unpredictable behavior of those older than 23years who have some autopilot functions turned off.

According to analysis done by Automata traffic jams will certainly not occur for forecoming 900 years if our transportation system will become fully 3D.

Matter in the city is transformed either by The Feed in form of molecular moieties or by "metro package transportation system". MPTS project was started by automata after referendum 2 decades ago,it is located underground and consists of system of pipes and tubes with many input, output and routing points. Capsules travel through this system, every capsule is routed similiarly as a TCP/IP packet on the Net. Those who are afraid of heights can use this kind of transportation - almost anyone can comfortably fit into a capsule - even a lucky couple can - and reaches destination almost anywhere within the scope of Prague membrane in maximum 30 minutes. Those who are afraid of transportation and are claustrophobic as well can use old-school Metro. Last Metro station was opened in Kladno in 2038.

Prague is connected with an external world by a newly built intercontinental airport which is also prepared for flights to orbit. Port itself is not within the circumference of the Membrane and does not fully belong to Prague, but it is very close to the south-eastern Entrance from where anyone can fly on his own or use MTPS.

For intra-continental movement, especially for distances under 1200km the most rational form of transportation is to use former railway network. Hlavni Nadrazi was - after the disappearance of Magistral in post-automobile era - hugely extended both on the surface as underground and has direct connections to all European capital cities. Frictionless magnetic field train will take a traveller to Brno in 40 minutes, to Bratislava in 1 hour 15, to Berlin in 1 and half hour...

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safer than 2dimensional traffic. no je to pekna fikcia, ale mne nepripada jednoduchsie riadit lietadlo ako automobil. Nie som extremny talent, ale automobil mam uz v rukach, kdezto o lietadloi sa pokusam uz 3 sezonu a este stale nie som schopny sam bezpecne letiet. Mohol by si uviest aj autora a zdroj?

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Dolezitym momentom ktory konstituuje predstavu tu predlozeneho mozneho modelu mesta je koncept "autopilota" a dobrovolneho delegovania niektorych riadiacich funkcii svetu strojov.

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Sláva Tobě Praho, vzdoru času zlobě, jak odoláváš bouřím všem !
secesný nápis na Náměstí Republiky

(Wo)Man's geo-sentiment directed toward Earth is still very high, thus real estates are still considered an important value, similiarly as they have been in 20st century. It seems that decision to transform catastre registers from 2D to 3D was a wise decision. Not only we started to think about the "realities" in the concepts of "volume" and not "surface" , it also allowed the city to become more wealthy. As we all know during the chaotic past decades, Automata proposed the formation of protective Membrane but only under the condition that human population of the city will agree with polisalization* of all the free "volumes". Humans in a referendum accepted the proposition and so a vast amount of air and underground "real estate" volumes became the property of city domain.

Polisalization allowed our City to solve the problem of homelessness. As we all know from our Chart of Rights, any registered citizen of Prague, has a right for a home. As we all know from the Chart of Responsibilities, it is a duty of Prague to guarantee that every registered citizen has a home. Anyone who will ever by any bad luck loose a home will receive a new one in the underground areas. With a new permanent residence place and some "spartan" equipment , one is given a basis and can start again difficult task of climbing up the social ladder. When it comes to social ladder, there is a 77% strong correlation between the social level and an Y-coordinate (vertical axis) of the place of residence.

New middle-class families prefer living in small semi-autonomous city regions. Especially these regions show a strong tendency towards an energy autonomy. One may found strong hydrogen reserves in almost all of them. These new regions are very often village-like with strong forrestation. Bandwidth of the datasphere connection optic fibers of these regions reaches 2/UBs/s (Ultrabytes per Second) and there is truly no demand for more. The "matter moiety Feed" in some of the most advanced city regions which are mostly located at the borders with the sphere of Automata has bandwidth of 85kg/min . I'll speak more about the advance of "The Feed" in part 5.

Whilst many newly built city regions resemble paradise gardens - especially when it comes to apple trees - old pieces of architecture are not at all doomed to oblivion. Nostalgic couples often pay a huge amount of credits for buying an old-school cottage or villa in Hostivar or Zahradni Mesto. Young people still love renting appartments in Nusle, Vrsovice, Zizkov - analysis obtained from automata says the cause is number of pubs in proximity , in Vinohrady - analysis says people love it because of its high ceilings, Smichov etc.

From the breakthrough of nanotechnologies and the emergence of "The Feed" concept, there is a slow but steady increase in the prices of appartmants in post-communist blocks. This is because nanotechnology allow fast and relatively cheap transformation of an old concrete block into a very solid and almost eternally lasting carbon-based block. At first , nanotech fluid slowly enwraps all concrete in the house both from inside and outside. Then it starts crushing the concrete content within to the atomic particles and rearranges the structure of matter to a diamondoid material. Afterwards the fluid disconnects and flows away by Feed pipes to another house which will be transformed. Whole process takes about one week for the highest 12floor communist blocks. Whole Jizni Mesto, Troja and Cerny Most were already transformed and bath in rainbow colors during sunsets.

Properties of diamondoic structures allow the architects to be more free in their designs. Cupola can be built on a top of opposite standing blocks, thus uniting them into one dome. Such solid houses do not collapse even under extreme pressure so it's not a problem to put tons and tons of soil on the top of a house and create a meadow there with lakes and trees. Latter solution is the most popular one these days - people love to land on a grass when returning home...

* Polisalization is a made-up word. It is not about individual obtaining the property (privatization) or the state obtaining the property. It's something in the middle.

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1. Domain

Future exists first in dreams, then in words, then in reality
R.A.Wilson - Prometheus Rising

Words like "progress" and "growth" do not dominate the common speech of our era. Of course humanity aspires to touch celestial objects of our solar system- and what higher "progress" could be done? But when it comes to Earth, what is more important than progress nowadays is "sustainability" and Beauty. Thus one may say - the purpose of the city is to ex.ist in Beauty. In such a manner a city allows a (wo)man to live in Beauty, to be Beauty.

Plan which Prague follows proposed decades ago that the land area should be divided more or less equally into three thirds. First part is dedicated to man&woman&child, it will be described mostly in parts 2 and 3 . Second part is dedicated to Nature & animals , I'll repeat the well known story about how we returned the wilderness into the urbanized territories in part 4. Third part is dedicated to industry & automatons & service. One may say this area, described in part 5, is becoming more and more incomprehensible to an untrained (wo)man's mind's eye especially because the use of so-called "high technologies" - nanotechnology & artificial intelligence.

These 3 areas more or less equal when it comes to the size of territory are surrounded by a major membrane and form a city domain. Membrana Major is almost border of the city, its extent defines the extent of the city. There are small membranes also within the city domain between the wilderness/human/automaton areas. These membranes divide the Whole city in small sub-units "city regions". Every city region has a right to have its own codex of do's and dont's. There is only one condition - city region codex cannot lead to a contradiction with Prague Ecologic Protocol. In some city regions nudity is forbidden, in other places it's consider faux-pas to wear clothes in summer; some places strictly forbid any kind of smoking, in other communities people don't even say "AHOJ" to each other but roll & smoke cannabis joint instead.

It was advised by Automata, approved by the Senate and not vetoed by me as an top observer that the circumference of the membrane should not change in 2048. Thus on the north our city ends near the fields of Stara Boleslav, in the north-west the main entrance into the domain is located near Kralupy nad Vltavou. Continuing in the counter clockwise direction one may observe that Kladno and Slany are included, as well as Skvorec, Ricany, Cercany.

To this very moment there are 3.2 milions citizens registered within the domain of Prague. 80458 children were born during my functional period - what a wonderful hope!

The highest immigrant flow to Prague comes from the Near and Middle East. These immigrants - surprisingly mostly middle-class and very often even highly educated worshipers of Sufic islam and Bahai religion - are forming a beautifully expressive city part called "City of God" in the area of past Ruzyne airport. Expressivity of their mosques and rituals attracts many. In a close proximity - just one wilderness unit away - a new Jewish town is being formed by many past citizens of old Jerusalem. Many of these monotheistic worshippers are an indispensable elements of a guild of cryptographers . All new immigrants successfully passed "cultural pluralism" test.

If the rate of an imitation in the different cities would be a measure of success , it would mean that our "1 third to the past, 1 third to the present and 1 third to the future" model is a successfull one. It seems that presence of a wild - chaotic - element is somehow crucial to the health of city. So even the Senate of Berlin considers seriously an idea of transforming many of its past parking spaces and road communications into biotopes.