1 00:00:03,588 --> 00:00:06,394 In addition to building things 2 00:00:06,534 --> 00:00:09,780 that demonstrate your ideas 3 00:00:09,920 --> 00:00:12,583 you've also been developing your ideas continuously. 4 00:00:12,733 --> 00:00:14,851 - Oh, yes. - What has that been about? 5 00:00:14,983 --> 00:00:18,197 What are some of the ideas that you've changed or added? 6 00:00:18,385 --> 00:00:21,509 In the early days, I pictured the buildings going up 7 00:00:21,660 --> 00:00:24,337 with some assistance of machines. 8 00:00:32,203 --> 00:00:36,432 Later, I devised particular types of machines 9 00:00:36,582 --> 00:00:40,990 that can erect particular kinds of buildings very quickly. 10 00:00:43,809 --> 00:00:47,538 During the early stages they will have the appearance 11 00:00:47,695 --> 00:00:51,399 of mechanisms like you see here. 12 00:00:51,605 --> 00:00:54,086 Each one of these robots are designed to cover 13 00:00:54,221 --> 00:00:56,164 a certain amount of functions. 14 00:00:56,282 --> 00:00:59,446 Starting with this type of robot which will be typical 15 00:00:59,609 --> 00:01:03,895 which will handle materials with many different configurations 16 00:01:04,058 --> 00:01:08,175 and move them, position them, and lock them in place. 17 00:01:08,901 --> 00:01:12,235 During the early stages you're going to have different machines. 18 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:15,060 At the later stages of nanotechnology 19 00:01:15,191 --> 00:01:19,081 the machines will be able to undergo morphing, or changing their shape 20 00:01:19,231 --> 00:01:23,567 to accommodate whatever project lies before them. 21 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:34,003 This represents a relatively complex aluminum extrusion. 22 00:01:34,504 --> 00:01:37,106 Those of you that are not familiar with that 23 00:01:37,250 --> 00:01:39,634 if you were to take a toothpaste tube 24 00:01:39,771 --> 00:01:42,733 and cut the letter 'T' in the opening 25 00:01:42,883 --> 00:01:47,435 and squeeze the toothpaste, it would come like a letter 'T'. 26 00:01:47,585 --> 00:01:50,894 This is how extrusions are made. 27 00:01:51,205 --> 00:01:54,434 However, in the future, it may be possible 28 00:01:54,571 --> 00:01:57,825 to extrude complete apartment houses 29 00:01:57,967 --> 00:02:00,982 apartment building units or modules. 30 00:02:03,153 --> 00:02:06,156 The machine would extrude the apartments 31 00:02:06,300 --> 00:02:09,260 then they'd be cut automatically to length. 32 00:02:11,546 --> 00:02:13,576 This lift unit 33 00:02:14,833 --> 00:02:17,649 places the apartment or module 34 00:02:17,786 --> 00:02:21,080 onto this crane, which then lifts it up 35 00:02:21,230 --> 00:02:23,801 and advances it forward 36 00:02:23,963 --> 00:02:27,705 so it locks into the twin towers. 37 00:02:28,193 --> 00:02:30,924 It is coupled together automatically, 38 00:02:31,068 --> 00:02:34,024 requiring no human labor. 39 00:02:34,900 --> 00:02:37,011 This extruder can be faced 40 00:02:37,155 --> 00:02:40,999 with different dies to mold different shapes. 41 00:02:41,149 --> 00:02:45,360 Almost an infinite variety of shapes can be extruded. 42 00:02:45,510 --> 00:02:49,923 It would be the apartment of your preference that's extruded. 43 00:02:50,993 --> 00:02:54,021 This is a similar machine, operated by tractors 44 00:02:54,159 --> 00:02:56,536 and advances toward the building 45 00:02:56,680 --> 00:03:00,077 and then projects the segment of a building 46 00:03:00,221 --> 00:03:04,444 directly into that hole and it's locked into place. 47 00:03:06,333 --> 00:03:10,394 Any shape, or almost any extruded shape 48 00:03:10,634 --> 00:03:15,420 can be designed to fit many different architectural arrangements. 49 00:03:17,759 --> 00:03:22,489 The interiors of the buildings will not be fabricated 50 00:03:22,627 --> 00:03:25,370 unless specified before the building is constructed. 51 00:03:25,581 --> 00:03:29,279 After the building is constructed, the appointments in the building 52 00:03:29,382 --> 00:03:32,231 are selected by the architect: the kind of furniture 53 00:03:32,375 --> 00:03:34,818 the color arrangements, etc. 54 00:03:34,956 --> 00:03:39,247 All television sets, all radios, all communication devices 55 00:03:39,398 --> 00:03:42,516 slip into zones in the ceiling or wall 56 00:03:42,656 --> 00:03:45,620 and you pull them out and put the latest stuff in. They don't change 57 00:03:45,764 --> 00:03:48,404 every year, except the quality of the imagery. 58 00:03:48,541 --> 00:03:51,513 Units that are designed today don't fit in with the house 59 00:03:51,657 --> 00:03:53,719 you have to kind of stick them somewhere. 60 00:03:53,856 --> 00:03:56,872 The future will look like it was born that way 61 00:03:57,016 --> 00:04:00,714 a lot like the human body. You don't have an eye hanging out there 62 00:04:00,852 --> 00:04:04,588 on a strap which you pull back, and that's what furniture looks like. 63 00:04:04,725 --> 00:04:08,894 The interior of a house to me looks like a lot of stuff piled up. 64 00:04:09,038 --> 00:04:11,347 It doesn't look like it was born that way. 65 00:04:11,485 --> 00:04:15,927 It doesn't fare together like most natural things do. 66 00:04:25,167 --> 00:04:27,938 This is a transitional-type structure 67 00:04:28,089 --> 00:04:32,380 which utilizes cranes to lift the components of the building. 68 00:04:33,853 --> 00:04:36,074 Eventually, the building itself 69 00:04:36,205 --> 00:04:39,609 will be part of a self-erecting structure. 70 00:04:59,807 --> 00:05:02,737 If there are particular areas where people don't want to live in 71 00:05:02,875 --> 00:05:06,803 we could build underground cities 72 00:05:06,940 --> 00:05:09,608 in the polar regions, tremendous cities 73 00:05:09,770 --> 00:05:12,307 a quarter of a mile in diameter. 74 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:18,314 The height of the dome is high enough so it's near the surface 75 00:05:18,448 --> 00:05:20,951 with a tremendous circle 76 00:05:21,102 --> 00:05:23,929 which daylight comes in through. 77 00:05:24,993 --> 00:05:28,350 The outer perimeter will serve as the apartments. 78 00:05:28,487 --> 00:05:33,289 The inner section will have lakes, tennis courts, fields and parks. 79 00:05:35,610 --> 00:05:38,297 As you see these surrounding elements here 80 00:05:38,447 --> 00:05:42,495 there are elevator shafts in them, and in those elevators are transveyors 81 00:05:42,655 --> 00:05:46,392 that take you anywhere in the city, and take you to the outer surface 82 00:05:46,536 --> 00:05:50,876 where you can go skiing, hiking, and do whatever you want. There are winter sports. 83 00:05:51,016 --> 00:05:56,200 There's also transportation above and underground to the next city. 84 00:05:57,616 --> 00:06:00,175 Under certain conditions, we can project 85 00:06:00,594 --> 00:06:03,106 the movement of clouds onto the ceiling 86 00:06:03,250 --> 00:06:07,667 so it doesn't feel like you're living in a subterranean city. 87 00:06:08,466 --> 00:06:11,866 People picture an underground city, subterranean 88 00:06:11,997 --> 00:06:15,996 as damp, like a subway terminal, damp and smelly. 89 00:06:16,140 --> 00:06:19,231 But the underground cities I'm talking about are beautiful. 90 00:06:19,371 --> 00:06:21,884 You wouldn't know you were in an underground city. 91 00:06:22,024 --> 00:06:24,743 The only difference is it would be located in areas 92 00:06:24,886 --> 00:06:28,703 that ordinarily would not support human habitation.