Now, Dubai has taken a step further along the road to making such dreams a reality by announcing that 25% of the city-state’s new buildings will be made using 3D printers by 2025.
The move is part of an ambitious 3D-printing strategy announced in 2016 by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice-president and prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and the ruler of Dubai.
— weforum.org
According to the Dubai Future Foundation the city aims to reduce labor by 70% and cut overall costs by 90% with their 3D-printed construction plan. The strategy not only aims at addressing the UN's projected density for urban areas in the future, but also holds potential to solve Dubai's severe homelessness crisis.
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Hahhahahah. Dubai's homelessness crisis? WTF. Do they mean the "worker camps"?
If they use robots (and not slaves) to build their shit, there will be no need for worker camps. Boom.
How much will they save when their labour is already at slave-like rates?
Next "innovation" for Dubai - Slave Robots!
That's how every dystopic film starts...
Until the machines take over, of course. Then, watch your back!
Why even build there to begin with when they already have a massive amounts of empty offices and apartments.
If they stop building, what will happen to all the money laundering that goes on there in the name of construction?
How can you launder your money if you're stuck with all that empty real estate?
Oh, that doesn't matter - you bring in cash, buy real estate, sell it after a while. In that process, your cash became legit.
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