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Ready Player One and the dystopian future of trailers that are packed on top of each other reaching up like sky scrapers.


The dystopian future is towers of sleep boxes that the poor rent to sleep 8 hours a day (so 3 persons per day). Something in the Matrix style. The sleep boxes are poorly built, but thanks to the laws limiting the supply, the workers have to pay thru the nose to rent those boxes. These towers are built on compact lots of land and around it there are 1 sq mi lots with proper houses for the rich 0.01%. This is essentially the exponential growth turning inwards.


Remember an episode of an sci-fi anthology show of a dome city on Earth where resources are limited.

There is a sleep pod that is shared by two people.

One person works during the day while the other person is put into some sort of hibernation and they swap places at midnight.




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