Will the rise of "the city that never sleeps" become the mainstream of future cities?

Recently, I always like to nag about some ordinary things, such as diet, such as this little article about sleeping. If it's a short article, I recently saw that some cities have 24-hour museums or 24-hour streets and other cities plan to build cities that never sleep. On the one hand, I like to see the diversified urban lifestyle, on the other hand, I am worried about the endurance of the human body.

1. The city that never sleeps is an existence in the future diversified development.

With the popularity of electronic devices and the richness of nightlife, the life of many young people has indeed become day and night, and the diversified development of cities is the future trend. A long time ago, the story of science fiction described hydropower, nuclear power, wind power and so on with the rich development of electricity. Many jobs that need manpower have been replaced by machinery, and human beings are engaged in more services and innovations, and gradually there will be no boundary between day and night.

According to the Global Sleep Report, the average sleeping time in China is 0: 23. In some countries, the time is even later than this figure, and the sleep time is getting later and later. Humans seem to be caught in a crazy carnival of staying up late collectively, but is this a collective carnival or a carnival of some people?

Jonathan Clary's "24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep" said that we were dominated by the environment from birth, and the market manipulated our lives all the time, forcing us to be in an endless rush.

Then, is the rise of urban culture about "the city that never sleeps" another trend of market-oriented reform? Or the habit of leading technology and market guidance? We don't know. There is bound to be confrontation between the healthy work and rest of the human body and the quiet changes of society. At the end of this confrontation, who wins and who loses depends entirely on how many people in human genes belong to the confrontation of two kinds of time difference genes, namely day workers and night shifts. Changing and blurring this time difference will become the ultimate contest between winners and losers in the consumer market of the city that never sleeps.

2. Future market changes triggered by the city that never sleeps

Although we still need to follow the natural laws of day and night alternation and body metabolism, with the study of lighting, indoor lighting can simulate the effect of sunlight, so body metabolism will gradually match personal living habits. This is not daydreaming's dream, but a reality. Many stars achieve the natural tanning effect by imitating the sun's baking lamp, but this technology has not been popularized. With the rise of the culture of the city that never sleeps, this kind of lighting system that imitates sunlight will be used by many people.

If the city that never sleeps is built, the city will be brightly lit all night, just like many sci-fi movie scenes. The city is brightly lit, like day. People who work and rest normally after sunset need to provide thick shading equipment, noise reduction equipment and noise imitation equipment to build each of our buildings, so that people who work and rest normally will not be affected by the life in the city that never sleeps. But now, in the early days of the city that never sleeps, we will probably only try to operate the rules of the city that never sleeps and explore the road of the city that never sleeps. The emergence of new things has a process of experiment and acceptance, which is a test for human beings to explore more possible lifestyles step by step.

For example, now more and more service industries don't open until 6 pm. Shanghai tried to open a 24-hour museum, and some industries began to recruit three shifts of night workers. These jobs include white-collar office work (public opinion monitoring, website editing, etc. ), this is a cutting-edge and exploratory attempt to nightlife.

3. The growth of the earth's population

With the improvement of the overall physical quality and medical level of human beings, the overall life span of human beings has been postponed continuously. Although the number of cancer patients has increased, the life expectancy of most normal people has been delayed until after 70 years old, which is an old number compared with any previous era. The end point of female fertility is after the age of 55. Although the pressure of raising children makes many young people in many families give up having children, the number of human beings is still increasing.

At present, the population of the earth = the population left by the reduction of death population-the normal birth population (many people encourage childbearing to stimulate the economy)-the normal death population reduced under medical insurance-the normal death population.

Due to the reduction of wars and the control of diseases, the population is in a state of growth. According to the data released by the United Nations population management department, the world population has been on the rise, from 4 billion in 1978 to more than 7 billion at present. Scientists and anthropologists have begun to worry about the carrying population of the earth and the future population limit, but at present, our generation does not need to consider this serious problem.

Population growth has also brought economic prosperity. Industrial development and unmanned internet technology have brought a large number of unemployed people. These industries will inevitably flood into the tertiary industry. Where is the growth point of economy? What is the significance of stimulating consumers to spend further? Searching in the time dimension is an excellent direction. After all, the mobile Internet has changed the way people work, rest and play. The emergence of industry and the Internet has created an era of all people sleeping at night. In the future, it is unknown whether the appearance of invasive VR will lead to abnormal changes in sleep time.

4. Witness the rise of the culture of the city that never sleeps

Our generation can witness the rise of the culture of the city that never sleeps, find business opportunities in this process, participate in a way to activate the urban economy, and also participate in the starting point of future urban construction and development. This is extremely lucky for our generation, and the witness of the times itself is of great significance.

When one day our descendants explore the history of our time, they will have a feeling of envy. The best culture was born in that era, and the original prototype of the rules was also verified in that era. Just thinking like this will make you feel excited.

The only constant is that human beings need sleep after all. Sleep is an essential way to repair the body evolved in the long evolutionary history of mankind. People who work daily or at night need sleep to rest and complete the functional cycle of the body.