Assume you have a population of 1000 billion people on earth (what with the hibernation tech), with most of them sleeping at any given time, so that you only have 10 billion awake. If everyone has their own apartment/house then at any given time, only 1% of the houses will be in use. This in itself is fine, as people can simply synchronize when they wake up to have empty/full neighborhoods. But it would also require either having 100x more infrastructure to handle the larger cities (or paving over the world, or more exotic solutions), giving everyone a lot less living room (e.g. pod skyscrapers) or having shared accommodations (like hotels or shared bedrooms).
My main point is that the current approach, where a house with a large garden is the default to strive for, would be totally untenable. Which in turn would require a lot of cultural changes (people tend to like having lots of room for themselves). This by no means invalidates the idea of napping, it’s just something that would have to be handled.
I’m guessing compounded interest could also be troublesome in the long run, e.g. you start a savings account now, and someone else starts in a million years—that would introduce some scary inequality. For the same reason that the older the vampire, the more powerful.
Ok, thanks for clarifying (I misunderstood « approaches » as implying new economical system). Yes, that scenario would need us to change some of our habits, for example we could share home with P/A family member, or rent it while sleeping.
compounded interest could also be troublesome in the long run
Interesting thought. On the other hand, the more sleepers, the more capital, the lower the interest rate. And what kind of bank could we trust for one million years?
Assume you have a population of 1000 billion people on earth (what with the hibernation tech), with most of them sleeping at any given time, so that you only have 10 billion awake. If everyone has their own apartment/house then at any given time, only 1% of the houses will be in use. This in itself is fine, as people can simply synchronize when they wake up to have empty/full neighborhoods. But it would also require either having 100x more infrastructure to handle the larger cities (or paving over the world, or more exotic solutions), giving everyone a lot less living room (e.g. pod skyscrapers) or having shared accommodations (like hotels or shared bedrooms).
My main point is that the current approach, where a house with a large garden is the default to strive for, would be totally untenable. Which in turn would require a lot of cultural changes (people tend to like having lots of room for themselves). This by no means invalidates the idea of napping, it’s just something that would have to be handled.
I’m guessing compounded interest could also be troublesome in the long run, e.g. you start a savings account now, and someone else starts in a million years—that would introduce some scary inequality. For the same reason that the older the vampire, the more powerful.
Ok, thanks for clarifying (I misunderstood « approaches » as implying new economical system). Yes, that scenario would need us to change some of our habits, for example we could share home with P/A family member, or rent it while sleeping.
Interesting thought. On the other hand, the more sleepers, the more capital, the lower the interest rate. And what kind of bank could we trust for one million years?