What can we do to make a society that fulfills as many Utopian ideals as possible? I think that Australia has particularly interesting potential going forward, and with technological advancements some very beautiful city and terraforming projects could perhaps be feasible by the end of the century.

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Table of Contents:

1. Reviving Eromanga

2. Outback City

3. Nakamoto Governments

4. New Economy

5. Free Energy

6. Entropy Reducing Infrastructure

7. Roadblocks

8. Conclusion

9. References

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1. Reviving Eromanga

Australia is the world's driest inhabited continent on Earth, with less than 10% of the land being arable. It may be surprising to figure out that millions of years ago Australia actually contained an inland sea, called Eromanga. It covered much of the central-east side of the continent but has since been blocked by natural causes and completely dried up, leading to a vast non-arable desert due to the salt water it left behind.

What if we brought Eromanga back to life?

The Bradfield Scheme proposed in 1938 to divert water from the Pacific ocean to the inland parts of the North Western coast of Australia. It was deemed impossible due to it being unpractical to undertake such a massive project.

However, in a world of AGI and intelligent robots, I think that this project could become feasible once again! With the help of robotics, we will be able to revive Eromanga and completely redefine the dynamics of Australia. Uninhabitable ecosystems would be completely rejuvenated allowing animal, human, and robotic life to prosper.

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2. Outback City

One of my favorite visions of the future is from Chobani (yes, the yogurt brand) called Dear Alice. It depicts a beautiful Solarpunk farming society with an abundance of holographic technology and nature, shown above. I also love some of the ideas from futuristic cities like NEOM or Zeropolis.

I envision the potential of creating a similar city, called Outback City, that will act as a Special Economic Zone and the Silicon Valley of Australia. It will be completely green. It should be somewhere near the Northern coast to become major trade allies with China, Africa, India, US, Korea, and Japan. Eromanga will allow easy export and imports to the middle of the continent, opening up more travel inland, which drives more demand at the ports. We can see this self-improving cycle transform into something spectacular.

Entering a new city should be inspiring. I'd like to see ultra-high glass skyscrapers or Mega statues defining the horizon. Major ports should have their own statues that represent the city. Similar magnitude to Colossus of Rhodes. How cool would it be to see a shining 200m statue while coming in from a boat or plane?

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3. Nakamoto Governments

We can even experiment with novel government forms for the cities, like NAKAMOTO GOVERNMENTS. This would allow for efficient direct democracy. To make things fair, all are required to vote (one of the great things about modern Australia). Additionally, we could have an open source government, where the constitution is stored as a GitHub repository. All changes to laws are easily findable as Git diffs. Anyone can create a proposal as a PR. Any good idea will be noticed.

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4. New Economy

This is my most incomplete area of this plan, but I think that it is wise to learn from all of the development in economies throughout history. Hopefully uncontroversially, we should strive to maintain free markets that fight against monopolies that hurt the consumer and stifle innovation. One underutilized strategy I see is subsidizing to create and not destroy value.

I also like the idea of Special Economic Zones. Like the name suggests, these are special regions in a country meant for experimenting with new laws and regulations. A nation can employ several different experimental zones, and after a while, they can merge what works best to rest of the nation. Again, this can allow for an societal evolution with constantly evolving and improving regions.

In addition, should we back money by gold? Crypto? Prove me wrong, but FIAT seems to be a trend that is a short-term solution with inevitable long-term disaster.

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5. Free Energy

Honestly, why isn't energy free?

You might've seen how just 1.2 percent of the Sahara desert would need to be covered with solar panels to power the entire world. Fortunately for Australia, even with future terraforming, there is a LOT of uninhabitable desert land where we can put energy stations. With some back-of-the-envelope calculations, a similar percentage of Australia would be required to power all of the world. Keeping this tremendous amount of energy inside of Australia would make it virtually free. It would also make more sense as it would greatly reduce the problem of having to store and transport the energy. Instead of one mega-cluster, the energy farms could be put near cities.

I really want to swap the paradigm of thinking about energy usage. We shouldn't strive to use less energy. This is stepping around two more fundamental issues. First, renewable energy is more expensive than natural gases. Second, energy is expensive. Thus, we should heavily prioritize developing renewable energy mechanisms that are both more convenient and cheaper than natural energy. People almost always do what is most convenient, and will switch to renewable energy when it is more convenient.

I hope the way of thinking will switch from, "Turn OFF the lights you're wasting electricity", to, "Turn ON the lights you're wasting electricity"!

With nearly unlimited energy, we can also have free drinking water. But what do you do with all of the leftover salt? Maybe we use collect the salt and offer free table salt.

I think that an electric vehicle mandate would make sense. Why use gas cars when electricity is so cheap and plays hand in hand with self-driving? With that being said, I am practical in realizing that using natural gas is more efficient for some tasks. We can save it for uses other than personal transportation.

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6. Entropy Reducing Infrastructure

It is one of the Laws of the Universe that entropy increases. You can easily see this in your day-to-day life once you notice it takes constant effort to keep things in order.

Interestingly, ubiquitous robotics would allowing fighting against entropy, resulting in what I call "Entropy Reducing Infrastructure". This would mean that streets will be extremely clean, with robots doing daily sweeps around town. No more gum on the sidewalks or trash on the side of the highway. They can repair buildings and over time, things might actually look better than when they were brand new. This would create a certain leathered patina that few cities can claim.

Australia suffers from both droughts and floods. We can mitigate floods by re-directing much of the water into inland reservoirs. This then allows for hydro-electricity from the man-made and bot-made rivers. New farming techniques can arise from this, much like the "Keyline Design" developed by the Australian farmer P.A. Yeoman.

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8. Conclusion

With sufficiently advanced technology we will have the opportunity to convert Australia into having an inland ocean. Of course, we shouldn't dump an entire ocean, but progressively connect reservoirs together. This will open up never-seen-before biological and technological transformation of Australia that I don't think we've seen in any part of the world. I've been incompletely thinking about this idea and this is a rough draft of what should be a much more detailed plan. Hopefully you found this interesting, and if you have any suggestions or comments feel free to message me somewhere.