Be Careful What You Wish For

I see walkable communities. Cities with energy-generating sidewalks that power buildings tailored to your chosen algorithmic habits from the fibers of your socks that tell the motherboard who and how to entertain in an immersive work-like environment. Some will have generated enough energy in a lifetime by simply walking to never have to work in a spa office again. Those who have not earned the years and steps will continue to virtually build the greatest and smartest cities that the oldest and consequently the richest citizens will never again see by foot. The upper crust will be taken care of with everything at their fingertips but they will never reach the ground again. Technically nobody will. Everybody who can will be generating energy with motion and labor from their feet on a literal grid. It will take them from the bedroom floor to the coffee machine to power the fridge, from the fridge to the toilet to heat the shower, and from the bathroom to the downstairs office to power the motherboard. No need to worry about lighting, motion is energy. 

I see cameras on every corner. The richest citizens thought it would be best to protect their resources from those who wanted to get away. Those who used personal vehicles drove in excess to use up fossil fuels before technology could save us. They would’ve driven backwards for centuries to get away with it. The next generation was accused of the same thing so the rich put a stop to the production of all vehicles and focused on shoe batteries. The idea was batteries would power everything, including lamp posts that formerly absorbed sunlight by using a negative charge and a positive charge at either end of the post making it a huge battery that charged from a smaller battery. It was a technique learned from the Russians, like the Russian doll, when they realized that you could hide smaller batteries within larger batteries by making larger and larger batteries. In this way they could waste even more energy that was generated from walking. Imagine there being no end.         

“I see dead people.” In order to rise to the top of the largest battery and not have to walk as far to create enough energy to eat and entertain, the richest people, the oldest, had to first realize that sustainability would make its way from the halls of academics to the artists stage to the podcasters audience and into their own minds at an early age living on earth at the same time when elders did not grow up with the internet. A time when most in middle age were not quick enough to get rich off the internet and everybody else before them knew those who are in control want to control the working class but they never will. So they did away with work. Everybody starts off with a small battery only to end up walking their way up to the 100th floor surrounded by either a negative charge or a positive charge at the top. It is at this level where eventually everybody realizes that sustainability was neither a positive nor a negative pursuit, causing previous generations to be fearful and argue in the extreme, but was created to divert attention away from an energy crisis they would eventually subvert. Those ideas were a necessary amalgam to get us into walkable communities. Since it was thought that the motion of the Earth around the Sun couldn’t possibly be used to generate the optimum amount of energy harnessed in some manner they figured they possessed the ingenuity to do it better. Now everybody can die rich at the top of buildings previously thought impossible to power without natural resources and natural intelligence.

Is this a positive or a negative?

Originally posted on March 27, 2023