ABC 실증 도시 II

image source | Zaha Hadid Architects

The design of ABC City has already been completed, and are being coded by the end of 2023.

• See ABC Specification for the codes we are writing.

• See BRI Plan & ABC City and ABC City Consortium for comprehensive understanding of ABC City.

• The images in this page are to help readers understand what ABC aims for, and to be replaced by our own drawings by the end of 2022.

Summary

ABC City(hereinafter, "the City") is a model of new international and logistic cities to be built by 146+ BRI nations for increased and smoother trades.

• The City provides a new international currency and settlement system, called ABC.

• The City is to demonstrate a new social system which 146+ nations can adapt for their whole nations or some restricted regions. The key features of the new social system are (1) sustainability, (2) automation, (3) ET(Everything is Intelligent), (4) GasS(Governments as a Service), (5) HoME(Humans on Machines & Equality)

This page describes the brief concept of the City. See ABC Specification and its subpages for technical details.

1. Preface

It is often thought that after the pillars are erected, the roof is raised. But, not. Without the roof, the pillars can't be stand up strait.

ABC Bank and its 100+ subsidiaries are pillars to support the roof of a new social system embodied in ABC City(hereinafter, "the City"). We are coding ABC and building the City at the same time, because they are pillars and roof.

The three main goals of ABC Company are (1) to gather R&D expenses and capital of ABC Bank, (2) to develop some or all of the 100+ subsidiaries of ABC Bank, and (3) to design and construct the City.

Those three goals are interrelated, any goal can't achieved without the achievements of the other two. As the City is the test fields of the other two goals, the other two can't reach its destination without the City.

One more aspect is that ABC Bank can be applied to any country without special treaty among nations and legislations of new laws in the country it applies to. Gold is gold in any country, and bank is just a bank. ABC Bank is just a bank in gold standard.

However, 100+ subsidiaries of ABC Bank can't applied to current cities and countries even with some kind of treaties and legislations because they are NOT just new technologies, but the reformations of the country also. Enormous social changes are inevitable to those nations where those subsidiaries are adopted.

So, the City is (1) to test and perfect the technologies used in the 100+ subsidiaries, (2) to show to the people worldwide what can be achieved by those technologies, and (3) for nations to prepare the adaptation of the ABC ecology.

Jejudo(제주도)

ABC City is designed as a model of hundreds of new cities to be built by 146+ BRI nations in their own territories. When designing the City, several requirements were kept in mind.

The City must be;

• minimal for any of 146+ BRI nations to replicate it.

• able to promote the development of each nation.

• a portal between the nation and the other BRI nations and the world.

• a model of a sustainable economy, coexistence among people, and coexistence both people and the nature.

• a testbed of a full automatic or full autonomous capitalism(全自動 資本主義),

This page describes how the City design can be applied to some area of Jejudo, Korea, such as Altrer(알뜨르).

Xiong'an New Area(雄安新区), China

The ABC City is designed by benchmarking a new Chinese city, Xiong'an. However, different from Xiong'an, ABC City is designed to be a model of hundreds of new cities to be built by 146+ BRI nation in the future.

• The BRI plan is to connect 146+ nations via ocean, land and air.

• The 146+ nations need new cities to be hub and portal of their trades and global logistics.

• The new cities need a standardized social system interchangeable among them.

ABC City aims to be a model of those new cities, and ABC is the standardized social system.

1. Full Employment by the City

ABC City is a cooperation like Samsung, Hyundai or LG. So, all the people in the City are either employees of the City or visitors, normally tourists.

You may regard ABC City as a futuristic and compact form of Ulsan, a Korean city, which is almost owned by Hyundai(현대) Motors and its employees, or the Hwasung city, which has been totally transformed by Samsung and its semiconductor factory.

However, ABC city is also quite different from any city in the world.

• The City is designed to be replicable by 146+ BRI nations. Ulsan or Hwasung city is NOT replicable by any nation.

• A few cities are specialized for a specific product or industry. For example, Ulsan city is specialized for automobile industry, and Hwasung city is for semiconductors. But, ABC city is not for a specific product, but for a new social system, neither capitalism, nor socialism.

On the surface, ABC City resembles a corporate city, but its core is completely different.

2. Full Environmental

The City is designed not to pollute the environment. For example;

• All vehicles are electric.

• All electricity are green, especially using ocean wind farms.

• All products are packaged in reusable containers, neither plastic bags, nor aluminium cans.

• All detergent is an eco-friendly, and used water is recycled for any use.

However, the most important factor is the sharing economy described below.

3. Sharing Economy backed by IT & AI

The most effective and powerful environmental policy is the sharing economy of the City.

• All lands are owned by the City.

• From bicycles to yacht, from toothbrushes to large mentions, most tangible and intangible assets in the City are owned by the City. That is, private properties in the City are less than one tenth(1/10) compared to other cities.

• The city manages every asset in the City, and there is no unused vehicles, TV or washing machines in garages for years, or even for weeks.

• The number of cars per 100,000 citizens are less than one third(1/3) of other cities because of ABC Traffic System. The same is true for other assets such as electronics, machines, furnitures and so on.

For example, private properties can be put into one or two travel trunks in ordinary apartments in the City, not to mention of all apartments being owned by the City.

How can ABC City meet the entire demands of the city with much lesser assets compared to other cities? The secret lies in complete automation described below.

4. Full Automation

The key difference of the City from other cities in the world is full automation. For example,

• All governmental offices such as IRS, city halls, patent office and so on are unmanned online application.

• All vehicles are driven by FSD(Full Self Driving).

• Even the toilet is automatically cleaned after use.

• All citizens are provided three meals a day, and the City knows who like or dislike which foods or which ingredients.

• The medical infrastructure knows the current health status, family disease history, and past diseases of each citizen. It determines which doctor, which hospital, which medical devices, which and medicines are best for the patient.

• All doctors cooperate with an AI doctor in their daily works.

Even, all citizens are insured by one insurance policy, in which the insurance installments of one citizen is different from all other citizens. That is to say, 200,000 kinds of insurance services for 200,000 citizens. Because the City knows everything about everyone or everything in the city to calculate the insurance premiums and installments of each.

The City is designed and being coded to be a model of a full autonomous capitalism(전자동 자본주의).

5. IT Education

One of the main goals of ABC City is to educate people in 146+ BRI nations.

• The main subjects to learn in the City are Information Technologies and related subjects such as mathematics, physics, chemical and biology.

• Humanity courses are also provided such as histories, social subjects and literatures.

• From kindergartens to graduate schools, the study fee of a student is just ABC 1T(about $1) per month.

• Students are from 146+ BRI nations.

• The students are learning in the City, and will build their own ABC Cities in their own countries.

• All classes are online.

• Every student learn on her own pace.

• There is no glade or class. Anyone can learn any subject in any difficulty together with anyone.

• All video lectures and text books are already made and freely available.

The education infrastructure knows each student's everyday activities: what she has learned today, what is her interest, with whom she is studying with, who are her friends, what profession she want to be and so on.

Each student is guided by her own AI professor from kindergarten to graduate schools. AI is not just guide the progress of each student, it also learns together.

Imagine a student and her A.I. study together, try to solve a problem, and plan weekend schedule. That's what we are coding now.

A.I. in City Design

Actually, A.I. is quite useful in designing a city, especially determining who reside in which parts of the city, where to construct industrial zones, parks, schools and so on.

Before applying A.I., the following should be done;

• How many the population is

• What percentage of citizens belong to which profession

• How many and how old students are.

• Whether students reside in dormitory or their home

• What kinds of products and services are necessary for daily lives of citizens and so on.

After determining the factors above, then we can use A.I. to determine the optimal positions or locations of each facilities which may lead to the minimal transportation expense of the entire city.

Though this page shows just a concept drawings of the City, A.I. will be widely used in designing the City in detail. If you participate in the ABC project, you will see the entire process.

1. Markets Department

Every citizens and tourists(hereinafter, "person") use the same market and the same banking system: ABC Market & ABC Bank.

• Whether online or offline, all shops in the City belongs to and owned by ABC Market(hereinafter, "the Market"), and the market is owned by the City. So, all the employees belong to the City.

• The Market knows everything in the market: what products are sold what prices at which shops, who buys or sells what products and how much, and so on.

• The Market determines what products to produce, producing how much, produced by whom, where, and when etc.

• Orders and payments are done in real time via 6G network which will be applied to the City.

See ABC Markets and ABC Telecom for technical specification

A. ABC Watch & Payments

All the people in the city use ABC Watch. ABC Watch is quite different from those of Apple and Samsung.

• Everyone visiting or residing will be given an ABC Bank account. The payment method of the Bank is ABC Watch.

• ABC Watch is a server-based dumb terminal. It doesn't need any cutting edge CPU or GPU at all.

• The Watch only needs display, 6g module, waterproof and hard enough.

See ABC Electronics for detail.

B. ABC Convenience Stores

The City manages and operate all the stores including convenience stores.

Different from GS25, CU and 7Eleven, the convenience stores in the City are normally places to receive or keep goods ordered online, and return reusable packaging devices. They are more like unmanned cafe than 7Eleven or GS25. Or, you may think it as a kind of emart 24 where all the products are sold in reusable packages.

• Imagine a Korean unmanned convenience store operating 24 hrs, but all the products are sold in standardized bottles and boxes, not using any disposable packaging materials.

• The ABC stores use larger spaces than 7Eleven etc., because they are cafes at the same time where people can eat foods, take rests, meet friends and so on. For example, when a citizen or a visitor orders a meal from a Chinese restaurant, the meal is delivered to a convenience store near to the orderer. Of course, the payment and delivery status are informed via ABC watch.

That's what ABC Convenience stores.

See ABC Store for technical specification.

C. ABC Reusables Containers

There is no packages like plastic wrappers and disposable bottles in the City. It's due to environmental reasons.

• We designed standard bottles for various kinds of liquids such as cokes, water, milk, beers and so on.

• We also designed various reusable boxes for various products.

• We call those bottles and boxes as ABC containers, and they are properties of the City.

• Using ABC watches, people freely take any reusable containers from container machines everywhere in the city, and return any used one to collecting devices which are also located everywhere.

• Of course, the City knows who borrowed which container when, where, and whether she have returned it or not via her ABC watch.

All the products sold in the city are delivered in various but standardized containers: reusable bottles and boxes etc. Those containers are collected by ABC collecting machines. See ABC Reusables and Vending Machines for technical specification.

2. Education Department

Contrary to current education systems of nations, the education system of ABC City is owned and managed by the ABC Government.

• From kindergarten to graduate schools, all lectures are online with pre-made digital contents.

• All textbooks are digital, open source and free.

• The academic year system is rather formal. Every student can learn every subject with every difficulties.

• From kindergartens, each student's grades are managed by the ABC government.

Education department knows who has learned what, how long and how much, and recommends appropriate professions for each citizen.

See ABC Education for technical specification.

3. Transportation & Logistics Department

The Transportation department operates all the vehicles in the City.

• It calculate the optimal path and speed of each vehicle to maximize the total benefits of the City. That is, to minimize the total cost of traffic of the city.

• It designs, develops, produces, manages and updates all vehicles.

See ABC Transportation for technical specification.

4. Health Department

This department monitors and tracks the health of every citizen.

• It produces all kinds of devices, medicines, and machines in health industry.

• It develops A.I. medical assistance systems for doctors, nurses and other medical professions.

• It selects medical students, and provides doctor certificates and licenses to qualified personnels.

• It determines who treat which patient when and where, and monitor all medical processes like diagnosis, prescription, treatments and so on.

See ABC Health for technical specification.

5. Housing Department

The meaning of the term "housing" is somewhat different in ABC City. This department is NOT limited to residential planning, but to provide sufficient living and working space to all citizens and workers. This department utilizes the SpaceWeb architecture.

• It determines which facility is constructed where, when and how large.

• According to jobs and family factor etc., it determines who(or which machine) use how much space where and when.

See ABC Housing for technical specification.

6. Catering Services

It's to provide three meals per day to all citizens. The meals are NOT just ordinary food of schools or army, but those of 5-star hotel buffet. The key to reduce cost is automation and information.

• It manages all food materials, machines, devices and cooks in the City.

• It determines who makes what foods where, when and how.

• It also determines what foods are delivered to whom by what transportation to where and when.

See ABC Catering for technical specification.

7. Energy Department

This department determines which facility, machine and citizen consume how much energy when where and why. Its goal is to produce energy necessary to meet the demand of the City, and to devise systems and innovate machines to minimize energy consumption.

• It designs various machines and facilities to produce and store energy.

• It determines how much energy is necessary for which facility, houses, factory, machine, citizen and so on.

• It finds out how to save energy consumptions of each entity.

See ABC Energy for technical specification.

8. Enterprise Department

The City owns 50+% of shares of all the companies operating in the City. That is, about 50-% of shares of each company are owned by others than the City. By analogy, the City is the holding company of all the companies in the City. The goal of this department is to promote and support companies in the City.

• The products and services produced in the City are for citizens both in the City and other cities.

• All the citizens are in fact employees of the City.

• The department regulates how to start and operate businesses in the City.

• The department determines which company employs who, produces what, operates what machines, delivers products when, where and how.

See ABC Enterprise for technical specification.

9. IT Department

10. Legislation & Justice Department

4. Milestones of Construction

1. Location

The City can be constructed anywhere in the world, but it needs enormous budgets. Its locations are limited to where the budgets can be recovered in a short term.

At present, August, 2022, there are two candidate locations. One is South-west of Jejudo island, South Korea, called Altrer(알뜨르) Airport Remains, and the other is a North-west region of Xinjiang, China. Though this page focuses on the first candidate, Altrer, Jejudo, all applies to the second, Xinjiang.

The Altrer region is not in use for more than 70 years due to military issues of the nation. If those issues are resolved in any way, the region surely is one of the best options because;

• Jejudo(제주도) is the best touristic place visited by 12 million Koreans in 2021, and the City is an precedented touristic city as (1) there is nothing like the city in the world and (2) the differences are quite awesome.

• The City is a showcase of a new society or a social system, and Jejudo is the only region where no visa is required. Worldwide tourists and students can visit the City without any hurdle.

• Lands are quite expensive in Korea, but the Alter(알뜨르) region is owned by the Korean government. The land can be freely available for some years If the City can provide something as valuable as the military role of that region. And, we have that something.

• Lastly, I live here. don't be serious, it's a joke.