They were all equipped with a set of qualities that would
automatically allow them a proper placement in a group. Their qualities
were visible, thus everyone knew well what to expect from each member,
who to approach with a specific task, question, or suggestion. The size
of the Space Musician’s sphere indicated their intelligence, while the base suggested
the volume of the sound. Each Musician carried an instrument that was shaped
after its tune. The rounder the instrument the lower was the tone and pitch.
There was an agenda for performances depicting the tone of a performance
for each occasion. Occasions were important. They promoted each object detected
in space. Thus, each composition depicted the properties of an object in
each composition. They lived in
Fractal
Cities and occupied level V in city
4. All the measures have been taken to save on energy and to improve security.
With the fast growing population (thanks to the medical talents, research,
and practice) the need for organizing and categorizing was clear. Each fractal
city worked like a skyscraper with its own unique function assigned to each
floor. One family could live on the first floor and own their summerhouse
located on the 11th floor. All it takes to get there is to take an oversized
elevator along with other group of happy campers. Since the designs of the
apartments and summer houses were symmetrical and they were built as mirrored
designs, the family would feel totally refreshed when entering a kitchen
situated in a different part of the house, often mirrored, and thus offering
completely different feel. Rooms would be placed on the left or on the right,
as the design was rotated, some apartments/homes would have saunas, while
others would offer a Jacuzzi. There was a whole floor just for the housing
needs, followed by another one for work. Some would take an elevator, while
those willing to save money or to exercise could take the stairs. There were
other floors: one for shopping experiences, another one for gym and games,
and the next one had districts for various services: plumbers, electricians,
bakers, or party caterers. Since they were all grouped, they could learn
their trades and tricks from a neighboring shop. No one was afraid of a competition,
because there were so many people around, all willing to subscribe to their
services. Everyone had to follow the sustainable architecture rules: recycling
the wastewater and using it for watering the vegetables and plants on the
roof, collecting compost and recycling it in those gardens. There was no
need for grass. It took space and energy, anyway. Those who liked nature
and fresh food, could go as far as on the 22nd floor to see real cows, or
to the 20th to drink less-processed food. The trip would be longer, but it
would create a totally different experience. There were no insects, no more
so annoying ones as dangerous mosquitoes. Respect for nature was monitored
well. The penalty for killing an animal was close to that for killing a person,
unless someone got permission. A quick picture was sent with a short text
message description, and a reason was sent against the database and generated
in seconds an automatic answer, usually a negative one, but there were exceptions.
There was no need for cars, just the elevators and the fast sidewalks. Living
like that saved a lot of money, but like with everything, there were options
within those boundaries. An apartment on the edge of a city was more expensive
then the one deep into the building located in the middle of the city. Apartments
located on the edge allowed for watching life in another city’s floors
or shelves. A trip to another city was quite expensive. One had to take an
elevator down and then a moving sidewalk, to get to the other city’s
entrance. The cities were located quite close one another, so it was not
a big effort. Sometimes, to get from one place to another located on the
same shelf took longer than to get to another city, despite of the fact that
the sidewalks on the shelves were faster then those connecting the cities.
Cities had their characteristics. They all had specific floor patterns for
the home, work, rec, shop, exercise, vacation, and entertainment. The work
floor was usually designated for a certain type of profession only, with
supporting areas nearby, thus all actors, directors, and producers would
share the space with musicians, stage designers, and artists. There was a
list of floors producing goods for all the cities, and those floors were
connected with the cities. There was no need to connect shelves for living,
because people could visit one another using the shopping shelves. Each shelfscraper
had a special function as well. For example, a shelfscraper, or a living
shelf consisted of apartments; in order to get into another shelf, one had
to take an elevator down to get to the bottom of a skyscraper, then a bigger
shelf elevator to change the shelve level. The addresses were quite complicated.
They indicated a city, a shelf, and a row. The number of a shelfscraper was
followed by the number of a shelfscraper in that row, then the floor, and
the apartment. Thus, one could live at the following address: A 2-3-6-7-8-10
It was always counted bottom up. The apartment mentioned above would be an
expensive apartment, because the city was close to the ocean (A), the shelf
was located at the bottom (2), and the row was not far from the edge, giving
a better way to the breeze than the shelfscraper that was more inside the
shelf, and on a higher floor. But it would be still better then to live at
MBD 12-86-72-44-88-124-300. What if everybody had everything one ever wanted?
There was no space for charity related activities. Everyone had everything,
including a personal robot or two, if they choose so. Space was the main
concern or a problem, rather. The biggest issue was to shine. Everyone was
doing whatever they’d chose to and, with practice, to become very good
at it. There was no single report of robbery, except of those of ideas. No
police officer was to be detected, except for those specializing in intellectual
property thefts. All creative or cognitive work was done by the kardelups,
so there was a base for assembling a higher level of the projects of interest.
Kardelups’ spheres were emulating their thoughts, projecting info,
and recording everything – exchange of information, musical composition,
or the entered data, such as texts, images, or sounds. For this reason,
all the info was public, easy accessible and permanent. Their music was
stellar.