(*) Published at the request of some dear friends with corrections to some scientists and dates errorcillos (but with the persistence of others concerning the physics of rotation in which I confess a slob). AGB September 23, 2005
The Helicoide and other wonders Bogota XXII century
Let us place ourselves in the city of Bogota, on Wednesday, 11 November 2150, and try to imagine some of the skyline (How I know will be Wednesday?, Well, there are many places online where you can download calendars with special programs to calculate the day of the fall of any date in any year, one of them, which I used for this computer-designed in 2002 in Medellin, by Dr. Miguel Arcila Montoya). To envision the scenario of the Colombian capital then later, a question that immediately bounces in the imagination as volatile worm ... Is it possible? Can we from our 'primitive' understanding of individuals glimpse of the past with any degree of accuracy the characteristics of the city the future?
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The answer is: first we attended (or so we think) a familiarity with the progress of which lacked the past generations, and on the other hand, our degree of approximation perennially comprise a painful insignificance.
Faxor At times, my chozno
In this regard any work of overtaking, is necessarily inaccurate, even when we possess high accuracy of the course to follow in the processes and technological progress, we assess changes in areas as simple as speech. Thus, it is likely that within a century and a half, many parents accustomed to baptize their children with unique names (that are either unpopular or today are now non-existent) which can be seen by comparing retrograde time if you study the ancient classification ... Without going any further, Timothy, Pantaleon and Anacleto were the nicknames for my grandfather, my grandfather and great grandfather of my father, so maybe my grandson, my grandson and my chozno (as designated on the fourth grandchild), are called Derdal, Abussam and Faxor ... Gutiérrez if the paternal junction is maintained, or carrying exotic names if your connection with me is by my daughters.
addition, the globalization of cultures and the emergence of new terms and verbs, by the grace of incorporation into the routine of many automatic devices, could be just two among many issues which explain the changes, both in the nomination of my eventual offspring as the language itself of the citizens of the XXII century.
But we are in 2150 ...
authorities and people of the city (first through rigorous efforts demographic, later due to the constant increase in average life expectancy and, finally, as a result of the massive migration to the metropolis last one of them) have reduced the population at some point (at the end of this century), came to exceed twenty million people.
Today, the number of the citizens just beyond the sixteen million.
There are notable differences between this and our old Bogotá 2005. For example, Colombia's capital status is maintained (although now that country is part of a larger national conglomerate, the Andean Community, whose capital is Ciudad Exaltation, within the old borders of Bolivia). Are visible from all Sabana the 'dome', collapsible structures, very thin and tough serve, and as collectors of solar energy, and protecting from rain or too cold at night. There are sixteen of them in Bogota, the smaller are three hundred meters in diameter and two hundred in height, while each of the older than three kilometers in diameter and six hundred feet high, are three, and when circumstances warrant, used to cover the historic neighborhood Unicentro, the sports area Simón Bolívar Park and the exclusive hotel and residential sector Páramo course, located across the hill of Monserrate and accessed across a wide tunnels.
streets without wheels
cars that once ran from the burning of oil or gas were replaced years ago by vehicles moving through electrolysis of water, or other mixed-use solar energy and spirit to rock on the floor, one on air jets and others through a network of magnefalt, magnetized plastic material that extends throughout the metropolis, on which 'levitate' slippers a few inches of soil by the action of electrically induced magnetic fields.
90% of the transport driver has no human has been replaced by tireless autopilots and virtual (actually software programs, rather than robots) always respectful of traffic rules, the few who still lead the capital city made exclusively for sport and special areas arranged for that purpose. The monoflot, Transmilenio distant successor, and ownership of EDESBO (Bogotá sliders Company) is the most fast and comfortable, even amplified to connect with neighboring cities, the different trains occupy 85% of the road network, a , carry passengers, and others, known as 'nurses' individual sliders are attached to certain stations where citizens uncouple their vehicles to follow particular routes. People reached
life spans reaching 120 years (in most advanced countries the figure is even extends to the 150). Now the vast majority of citizens has a iaper (intelligence Custom artificial) that combines the old cell phone, computer and TV with sleep, as old as childhood imaginary friend. The iaper is an individualized system, an alter ego, which is responsible for verifying all automated protocols and simple work of each individual.
existential context
Nanotechnology, present in many aspects of everyday life, allows people to use a single suit, the atoms are rearranged according to commercial software code fashion, to transform into various costumes. Some suits are disposable (to show off only once) and others somewhat more costly, become a definitive part of iaper auxiliary hard drive of each. Babies do not wear diapers, because 'costumes nanny', similar to the outfit of each, are responsible for synthesizing and transforming toilet water and organic waste compounds, and have them when the child goes to bed
Although
Poverty persists, is much lower than that of the late twentieth century, due to the consistent downward trend in prices of all kinds of sophisticated objects. Even in the poorest neighborhoods are frequently developed parks with all the genetic engineering of the case. Everywhere are seen large movements 'corponaciones' as known to those companies that became true financial nations transcended regional boundaries and to become autonomous. The most powerful of these is the Flexor Dundalk (FD) owned by the family of Irish O'Cassey Robert Patrick, who is the current version, though somewhat old, historic Bill Gates. The FD has built several ultra-modern cities to its millions of 'empleadanos' (a mixture of employee and citizen) his empire including the executive, 'Cibernia', a beautiful diamond balloon fiber (obtained from the modification of carbon molecules) that fleet anchored in the Atlantic Ocean at an intermediate point between the Azores and New York City.
corponaciones Just one of those, the Mingu, Eastern potentates owned almost entirely, is in charge with the district administration project 'naturópolis', whereby trees of native species, quick growth and improved by the application composting accelerators, covered with exquisite flowers and assorted fruits for public use much of the capital, thus converted into a spacious and quiet city wild.
Mitnik's masterpiece
Within the urban
Bogota, highlighting the various works by the Colombian-Argentine architect José Agustín Mitnik (2032-2140), and especially these days Helicoide that celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of its opening number: a complex administrative, social and university has become the most visited site in the city, and certainly in a the wonders of the world. Helicoide arises as a result of the combination of ancient architectural knowledge with the latest advances in nanotechnology of building materials and energy from controlled nuclear fusion, it is a small reactor that regulates their movements.
The imposing building, is located in the Paceco (grand Central Park Community), located in the old corner of First Avenue South to Seventh Avenue. The central rotor is a rotating circular building and a thousand feet high and sixty feet in diameter (eighty in the ring of the base), for the core component is entered all Helicoide and two 'blades'. The blades also swivel suspended two cylindrical buildings that 'float' more than fifty feet above the ground, each forty feet in diameter and two hundred in length. Diametrically opposed arranged around the central rotor are attached to it by the 'axis', a cross wit a hundred feet in diameter and one hundred eighty meters long and houses the main servo supports triple crosses the rotor construction and central to one hundred fifty feet.
Due to opposition from the blades and aircraft movements on the central axis, the entire ensemble looks like a giant ringlet, and here the comparison goes beyond formal and translates into a functional reality for the triple set rotation . The first is the central rotor which covers a full revolution of 360 degrees in the direction of clockwise (seen from the sky) every twenty-four hours (at six o'clock the cover of Helicoide given to the hill of Guadalupe at noon has shifted ninety degrees and faces the anchovy of deslipista Chipaque and drove toward the city of Villavicencio, at six p.m. Ninety degrees, after traveling more, "the facade looks toward the West and in the sense of deslipista coming to the neighboring town of Melgar, and the impressive midnight, the structure has shifted 270 degrees from your starting point to planting facing the Plaza de Bolivar, and finally in the early morning hours back to the position in which the city is every morning).
Labyrinth
rotating blades side, for their part are also a 360 degree turn every twenty-four hours, but not in the horizontal direction as the central rotor, but in the vertical direction (something impossible in 2003 but viable then thanks to lightweight materials and nanoensamblados flexible and tire ten times stronger than steel of the twentieth and twenty times as light and malleable) are those moles of thousands of tons which represent the most dramatic genius Mitnik, and revealing the structure Helicoide as prominently in the architectural history of Bogotá.
still in its path, as far as accommodation is concerned, the principle of the old Ferris wheel or Chicago, this means that, although a number of constantly changing internal structures, planimetry of the classrooms, offices and other spaces remain unchanged as the interior of the baskets in a wheel old fair. At six o'clock, when the facade greets Helicoide main hill of Guadalupe, both blades are parallel to the vertical position of the building, but little by little, while the central rotor moves the whole south, the blade of the right of the door begins to lean towards the eastern hills, and the left to get away from them as well, both at noon, at about twelve o'clock the two blades are lying and buildings assume a horizontal position so that the habitats previously in sixty floors, are now only two ... if you get the idea of \u200b\u200breverse rotation of both blades are warned that whoever was on the first floor of the blade right at six in the morning will be on the floor sixty to six in the afternoon. "It's fascinating, enter sales up or down, or have to travel a great running slightly tilted to the elevators, these are the statements of thousands of tourists who visit daily.
course at nine o'clock (morning and night) and three (in the evening and morning) when the angles of each blade, or rotating tower, have traveled 45, 135, 225 and 315 degrees from their initial states, the blades do look at a monumental Helicoide letter x overlying central rotor, which together with lighting that varies with exuberance gives an almost supernatural Bogotá. Sociologists say
and psychologists that people who work and study in the Helicoide are among humans, with more open minds on planet earth (and the proof is the huge stock of professional graduates of various universities based in the building), the prodigy is undoubtedly due to the diversity of landscape and space that is experienced from within in a span of twenty-four hours.
A funnel underworld in which both have built nuclear reactor countless parking and service levels, and which rotates as the outside, almost one hundred and fifty meters embedded in the savanna soil. And there is another peculiarity: the displacement of the blade both right as the left, perceived from within, for whom is in the central rotor, as in the same direction, while the outside is clear that the right moves in a clockwise direction while the second does so against the latter.
For anyone confused with Helicoide display, you may find useful the more accurate definition of the construction to date, which was given by himself Mitnik on Friday December 6, 2120 (the day is Helicoide began to walk) during the ceremony starts: "I conceived the Helicoide, as a human titan 300 meters high, which turns ever toward his right side, so that her face every morning returns at six to greet the mountains guardians of Bogota, Monserrate and Guadalupe, the central axis, horizontal serves your collarbones, and the central rotor of the main tower is its backbone, the blades last symbolize the movement of arms, the right always projecting forward in a circle of twenty-four hours and left simultaneously doing the same back ...". If you still can not understand two things is possible ask your iaper that projects a hologram of Helicoide or, better yet, make reservations in the next package tour to Bogotá, Páramo district awaits course (hotel availability all year although it is more expensive in high season).
Hallucination "?
Although this essay, I remain on the hard drive, a diverse assortment of characteristics of Bogota in 2150, such as the description of air transport and satellite districts Tenjo Chíamor and New, or life in colonies of Chinese and Nigerian immigrants are located at the edge of Bogota River decontaminated, that it is probable that I have fallen short in the scope of my survey, collate it because the anticipation of the future with the future true (when it certainly gets really wrecked any calculation). In principle because he speculation in this case me, "he does not ever get in his research include the entire spectrum of current technologies to appear.
However, both Mitnik and his work, the Helicoide, as iapers, domes and deslipistas are part of a fictional project that advancement at the time and which takes place in the context of a somewhat optimistic view of tomorrow Bogota , which I greatly viable.
Skeptics, if I may use as compared to the retrograde, which I used in the case of names, and repeat now, with the comparison between three rooms ...
Environment # 1: Bogota, Monday 11 November 1850, or do is still called Santa Fe de Bogota?, the flamboyant capital of New Granada, is a backward little town of 45,000 inhabitants which has a seat in the government of President José Hilario López (within a year ordered the end of slavery), no mayor but political leader (José María Maldonado) just eight years ago took the first photograph (daguerreotype of Centre Street by Jean Louis Gros in 1842), missing 15 years to establish the first telegraph line (1865), and 31 years for the first telephone line installed (September 21, 1881), the city has no street lighting, even with tallow candles, in contrast to London, for example, has gas lighting from 1807 (Bogotá only will 1871), the electric light will take four decades to appear (1890), and the underground sewer take more than twenty years (1872), the iron pipe for the aqueduct will only appear in 1888, the journey to the port of Barranquilla takes about two months, and travel to the port of Honda on the Magdalena River three days will hardly take stone paving of the road to Facatativá, there is no fire department, police or established, the opening of the first railway line (the "Ferrocarril de la Sabana" between Bogota and Facatativa) delayed until 1889, and the first car-a Cadillac that mattered Ernesto Duperly-up only until the distant year 1903 (in 2003 marked the centenary of the car in the capital) .. . and the local manufacturing work not even using the steam that drives the industrial forces in the developed world three decades ago!
Environment # 2: Bogotá, 2005, the vast city in which we live 180 times more populated!, With international flights, and millions of cars, phones, computers, advantages and problems. Environment
number 3: Bogotá, 2150 ... if we consider that the technological advancement of mankind has always been to build a new generation of tools to make them another generation of more sophisticated items, then, without requiring a magician (to warn that in the next 150 years this process will be much faster than the 150 above) the temptation to venture conclusions overwhelms us.
And irresistible.
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