Sidney Eugene Bream

The idea of what the city of the future holds leaves more questions than answers—at least as far as I am concerned. The first concept I imagined involved a more crowded, noisier, higher paced, higher stress environment where all humans would need a medical procedure performed that would remove the nasal cavity and sense of smell all together. The smell of this city would be a delicate mix of juices found in large garbage dumps, pungent urine, and a new cleaning chemical invented so that the huge population of humans could walk the streets without getting deathly ill. The smell would be lethal. This neo-cleanser would make present day bleach appear as a Ralph Lauren fragrance, truly volatile.

Then I remembered current trends of the evolution of cities in the modern age and thought that in the future, the city would be so expensive, it would be unpopulated. No one could afford to live there. While in the 80's many city working Americans moved out of these cities and into "near by" suburbs to conserve money, they thought they were ahead of the game by performing a task called commuting. What they never imagined is their "high paying" jobs being taken from them. They left this to the factory workers, those who wore blue collars. But as we have seen recently, no job is safe from outsourcing. As technology, the buzzword for this future city, continues to increase, so does the corporations’ need for someone far away to perform the labor at a cheaper rate. This will force even more people to migrate to the real future city: the suburbs.

This means that the city of the future will have courts, cookie cutter homes made by K. Hovnanian on .5 acres of property complete with a 2 car garage, and neighboring father figures competing to see who can get the holiday decorations up the fastest. Subways, penthouses, and "old neighborhoods" are down; soccer moms in minivans are up.

This is your city of the future. What is the country of the future going to look like?

Oh yeah, one more thing: There is going to be a "great import car war" where Toyota will put their robots against Honda's. The good news is, all the robots are destroyed and no one will know how to make more.