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The city of the future will be a mixture of light and concept. Since we will have devastated much of the Earth, including other animals and raw materials, we will have to find a way to maintain the lifestyles so carefully developed through our ancestries. Clothes, personal belongings, houses, and all other things will be made by light projection. The apparent weight of the item will be an illusion produced by varying light densities. Advances in technology will enable our highly visual tendencies to unite with our love of concept to provide us with any typical object desired. "In the long run," we are told, "we will see that this is the better way to live. It saves time, eliminates unnecessary jobs that no one wants to do anyway, and grants one the ultimate freedom – the freedom to surround himself in any fantastical environment he wants. One may also change his environment to keep up with his inevitable mood swings by merely flipping a switch or pressing a few buttons."

Despite the persuasive force of science, people will develop a new longing for the material world as society once knew it. They might even claim that the material world was better than the current world. Their argument will go down in anthropological history as "the materialistic fallacy."