In addition to building things
that demonstrate your ideas
you've also been developing your ideas continuously.
- Oh, yes. - What has that been about?
What are some of the ideas that you've changed or added?
In the early days, I pictured the buildings going up
with some assistance of machines.
Later, I devised particular types of machines
that can erect particular kinds of buildings very quickly.
During the early stages they will have the appearance
of mechanisms like you see here.
Each one of these robots are designed to cover
a certain amount of functions.
Starting with this type of robot which will be typical
which will handle materials with many different configurations
and move them, position them, and lock them in place.
During the early stages you're going to have different machines.
At the later stages of nanotechnology
the machines will be able to undergo morphing, or changing their shape
to accommodate whatever project lies before them.
This represents a relatively complex aluminum extrusion.
Those of you that are not familiar with that
if you were to take a toothpaste tube
and cut the letter 'T' in the opening
and squeeze the toothpaste, it would come like a letter 'T'.
This is how extrusions are made.
However, in the future, it may be possible
to extrude complete apartment houses
apartment building units or modules.
The machine would extrude the apartments
then they'd be cut automatically to length.
This lift unit
places the apartment or module
onto this crane, which then lifts it up
and advances it forward
so it locks into the twin towers.
It is coupled together automatically,
requiring no human labor.
This extruder can be faced
with different dies to mold different shapes.
Almost an infinite variety of shapes can be extruded.
It would be the apartment of your preference that's extruded.
This is a similar machine, operated by tractors
and advances toward the building
and then projects the segment of a building
directly into that hole and it's locked into place.
Any shape, or almost any extruded shape
can be designed to fit many different architectural arrangements.
The interiors of the buildings will not be fabricated
unless specified before the building is constructed.
After the building is constructed, the appointments in the building
are selected by the architect: the kind of furniture
the color arrangements, etc.
All television sets, all radios, all communication devices
slip into zones in the ceiling or wall
and you pull them out and put the latest stuff in. They don't change
every year, except the quality of the imagery.
Units that are designed today don't fit in with the house
you have to kind of stick them somewhere.
The future will look like it was born that way
a lot like the human body. You don't have an eye hanging out there
on a strap which you pull back, and that's what furniture looks like.
The interior of a house to me looks like a lot of stuff piled up.
It doesn't look like it was born that way.
It doesn't fare together like most natural things do.
This is a transitional-type structure
which utilizes cranes to lift the components of the building.
Eventually, the building itself
will be part of a self-erecting structure.
If there are particular areas where people don't want to live in
we could build underground cities
in the polar regions, tremendous cities
a quarter of a mile in diameter.
The height of the dome is high enough so it's near the surface
with a tremendous circle
which daylight comes in through.
The outer perimeter will serve as the apartments.
The inner section will have lakes, tennis courts, fields and parks.
As you see these surrounding elements here
there are elevator shafts in them, and in those elevators are transveyors
that take you anywhere in the city, and take you to the outer surface
where you can go skiing, hiking, and do whatever you want. There are winter sports.
There's also transportation above and underground to the next city.
Under certain conditions, we can project
the movement of clouds onto the ceiling
so it doesn't feel like you're living in a subterranean city.
People picture an underground city, subterranean
as damp, like a subway terminal, damp and smelly.
But the underground cities I'm talking about are beautiful.
You wouldn't know you were in an underground city.
The only difference is it would be located in areas
that ordinarily would not support human habitation.