Who will do the dirty work?
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Interesting report released yesterday:
Quote:The 2050 home includes a kitchen where waste is sorted by nanoscopic robots and food packaging that is designed to degrade in line with sell-by dates. Waste from the bin-less home will be collected via a pneumatic network, by an underground network, and transferred to treatment facilities. This 24/7 waste collection service will reduce the presence of vehicles in the city, helping to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to the report.Meanwhile the bathroom features ultrasonic baths, self-cleaning surfaces and water purification based on systems found in plants and bacteria.
More here:
http://www.edie.net/news/5/
Veolia-unveils-bin-less-homes- vision/ Who does the 'dirty work' today? Wage slaves of course! Most do not receive enough wages to own their own home or pay their fuel bills. In a society of free individuals and free access, I should think we will be queuing up to do the 'dirty work'. In return – unlike today – we will have a home and whatever else we need in order to live a good, fulfilling life, free from the fear of unemployment, homelessness, poverty and war.In fact a lot of the 'dirty work' will become obsolete: like killing people from other countries, evicting people from their homes etc
ALB wrote:Interesting report released yesterday:Quote:The 2050 home includes a kitchen where waste is sorted by nanoscopic robots and food packaging that is designed to degrade in line with sell-by dates. Waste from the bin-less home will be collected via a pneumatic network, by an underground network, and transferred to treatment facilities. This 24/7 waste collection service will reduce the presence of vehicles in the city, helping to cut greenhouse gas emissions, according to the report.Meanwhile the bathroom features ultrasonic baths, self-cleaning surfaces and water purification based on systems found in plants and bacteria.More here:http://www.edie.net/news/5/Veolia-unveils-bin-less-homes-vision/
There is also an extensive discussion on the files of the WSM forum. It is a topic that we have discussed already
Don't hold your breath! For Veolia it will work in relation to the available profits, that's all.Possible? Yes. Likely? Debatable.
I know Veolia is one of the private firms that try to rip off local councils as much as they can get away with for collecting rubbish. I see their vans passing by every Tuesday. But I think the academics at the LSE may have taken them for a ride.The report outlines two scenarios:
Quote:A report published today by Veolia Environnement and the London School of Economics envisages the home of the future with nanoscopic robots sorting materials, self-cleaning bathrooms and ultrasonic baths. However it also contains stark warnings with two contrasting visions of urban living in 2050. ‘Imagine 2050’ was developed by leading environmental services company Veolia Environnement in partnership with the LSE. Under both scenarios, environmental technology will transform the home of the future – one in the context of a circular economy, the other in the context of a linear economy.The report describes one future city in which system-level planning has created a dense, resource-efficient society characterised by collaborative consumption, shared ownership and local self-reliance. Alongside this, it models a scenario in which disparate and unregulated development has led to a resource-hungry urban sprawl where private consumption and ownership is prioritised over long-term communal thinking.It is clear that the first scenario is only achievable in socialism while the second is what happens in capitalism and still will in 2050 unless we get socialism by then. In fact, it's surely the scenario that's best for Veolia from a profit-making point of view.I think we can use the first scenario to back up our case. So can the Greens, but they think it can happen under capitalism. My speculation is that the LSE academics were covert Greens. Anyway, as I said, I think we can turn their public relations exercise to our benefit.
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