The world inside
by Robert Silverberg · first published 1971
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In 2381, the highly regulated life at the giant building known as Urbmon 116 may seem ideal, but some residents are experiencing dangerous dissatisfaction.
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This is similar to the world from the nov The World Inside by Silverberg. Very good book, I recommend it!
on “Magnasanti: Large and Terrifying SimCity (2010)” ↗Add to that The World Inside novel, by Robert Silverberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Inside).
on “The Strange Saga of Kowloon Walled City” ↗There's reference in Robert Silverberg's "The World Inside" of prompting the database in reference to knowledge workers. The phrase/wording paraphrased was "...needed to word it just right to get the information from the system"...
on “Ask HN: Can you think of a sci-fi novel that feels like ChatGPT now?” ↗This sort of utilitarian calculus isn’t even believed by utilitarians. Simply having more people doesn’t make the world better (or worse.) This comment reminds me of the Robert Silverberg novel “The World Inside” where the world is dominated by a belief that reproduction is the highest good.
on “The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better” ↗…would be useful. In the US there are 'golf course to the grave' type communities for adults who want to go smoothly from the 50's into the afterlife. And when I was a teen I read Silverberg's book "The World Inside"[1] which postulated the "Urbmon" a complete community in a single structure. That has always fascinated me, the question of "Can you build a carbon neutral self sustaining human community?" I presume…
on “The Barbican” ↗