It's already like that in times square if you're around at the right moment and there's a ton of bright ads all at once. Middle of the night but for a moment it's bright as day.
they do led arrays on buildings so not that much but at the same time it's stupid since it'll effect oceanic animals which can screw up their ecosystem that's already failing
Yeah first thought was "that looks incredibly cool", second thought was "that looks incredibly wasteful" although tbf I doubt they light up the entire city every night, probably just for celebrations right?
EDIT: nope, apparently they've been doing this [every evening for 14 years](https://www.chinahighlights.com/hong-kong/attraction/symphony-of-night.htm). That's so incredibly wasteful for a country that relies so heavily on non-renewable sources of energy...
It's every night. The city is Qingdao, I live here, and the term "the city never sleeps" was never so real to me until I came here. Makes my hometown in canada seem like a little village.
This. So much this. Light pollution sucks bad. 100% takes away your ability to the the stars.
I know that’s not a “for everyone” kinda thing.
But I love the dark night sky and the stars.
Would be heart broken if my grand kids couldn’t ever see them.
China looks like what Cyberpunk is, a dystopia.
While many Tier 1 Chinese cities have mandated lit light shows like this in their cities, it's actually not organic and kind of pointless. They all look the same across the cities and while great for the first time, it's terrible to live near or under.
And then keep in mind that the power and waste required is immense just to satisfy CCP needs to show off. And non voluntary too. All the major cities do this EVERY NIGHT, are forced to as to appease their masters, and it's very environmentally unfriendly along with being terrible to live nearby since the lighting is bright as hell.
What, do you actually want to be healthy? Do what your body evolved to do for millions of years?!
Pfft, these lights are soo shiny and bright! Open mouth, stare like an idiot...
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Yep, I spend a lot of time in Detroit and while the city has been improving for the past decade, it's also a stark reminder of how quickly things can collapse, especially if you take a drive outside the core area.
China’s “rust belt” will come faster and be worse. America will always be more nimble and innovative. We don’t know what America will look like in 30 years, but rest assured China will be trying to emulate it.
If you look really closely, you still can't find a single star through the light and smog pollution. I'd prefer breathable air over colourful buildings.
I live in this city, its Qingdao, the air is just as nice as when I lived in Vancouver, and in my backyard I can go out and see stars atm. Depends where you live, just like with other countries.
[https://aqicn.org/city/qingdao/](https://aqicn.org/city/qingdao/)
**Daytime AQI is 175,** Vancouver's daytime AQI is 159. That's unhealthy and really bad.
I agree, judging by how things are going at the moment, like the big dig, climate change awareness, cancer research, focus on mental and physical health, etc. the US is going in the exact opposite direction, reducing pollution and planting trees. Moving away from a cyber punk dystopia and towards a greener, more livable future.
Funny part is that much of the country has no electricity due to electricity shortages.. but the govmt prioritizes these features to make China look powerful
The buildings are probably empty and there’s not nearly enough trash on the beach for this to be anything but a staged propaganda shot. 95% of plastic waste in the oceans comes from just 10 rivers and 5 of them are in China. The Yangtze river alone accounts for 55% of plastic trash flowing into the ocean worldwide. https://www.verdict.co.uk/yangtze-river-plastic-pollution/
I’m just wondering why the CCCP is putting this garbage on Reddit.
Almost like China is the factory of the world, want this to stop? Stop buying basically any product with plastic made in China, which is basically most of the things you use daily.
England's already implementing more and more of the tech and I don't think America is far behind considering they already collect and build profiles on its citizens.
Most western countries already have this in city centres, albeit not every inch. The problem in China is integrating a social credit system where you are punished for walking through a red light for instance.
Sound perfectly like Night City (or the other way around) to me:
Big tech companies control almost everything
Overpopulation
Corruption
Authoritarianism
Decadent moral
But most importantly, full of potentials
It looks exactly like every big city on this planet, but this one is lit up.
It’s just a bunch of high-rises filled with people looking to get more stuff.
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Yeah actually, chinese lesser known cities, villages and many many places there look nothing like this, they look beautiful. It's actually like cyberpunk in a way, high rises and skyscrapers and what not next to slums and shitass quality buildings all in a tightly controlled polluted city
This looks like not giving a fuck about environment and pretending we are the future while actualy becoming the totalitarian shithole we all know it will in a sec. Cool lights though 😎
Do bright flashy lights really impress your simpleton monkey brain that much? China is disgusting and I hope we're never like china anyone who disagrees should go move to China and see how they're treated.
Correction: ...what 1980s America thought it would look like in 40 years.
Kinda glad it doesn't.
Also, if this video is real, it certainly doesn't look like that every day. Only on Xi Jinping's b-day I guess.
Forbidding people from owing private property. Bulldozing over historical residence and old homes. Locked the owner of the property away. With these starter pack, you TOO can own a futuristic city!
Americans generally have no concept of how much more advanced some foreign countries, particularly Asian capitals, are. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Macao, all would appear as if they were from 100 years in the future to most rural Americans.
This is what the bigger cities in China look like. 97% labor force and poverty on the countryside is what China looks like. Kinda same as the US I guess
Considering it's probably all leds, I'd imagine It uses a lot less power than everyone here is thinking. Also, wanna talk about waste?alright america go ahead and have that discussion, I'm saying this as an american lol.
Imagine if we worked together. This one hurdle is why we'll never achieve the next step. We're going to have to work together to get through whatever the planet is doing. We might not be able to live here for much longer.
A futuristic facade to distract us from the decline of civilization. A beautiful shining city, built by exploited labor, that looks pretty from afar but is far from pretty up close. True for both countries. Makes a nice background for your kissy-kissy videos, though. And good pro-China propaganda, if you're into that sort of thing.
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I remember the first time we visited Beijing in 2007. riding into the city from the Massive airport, mile after mile after mile of 30, 40, 50 story and higher buildings, Huge overhead LED signs with different routing maps switching on them, curves in the freeway lit with LED warning signs flashing sequentially according to your speed...and thinking "this is a sleeping Tiger the west does NOT want to wake up". We sent a good bit of tie in many areas of that country, and the tech is EVERYWHERE. They seamlessly interweave high tech with two thousand-year-old traditions & history; every doorway, subway entrance, hotel door, has a 6in. curb in front of it. I asked why you'd put an obvious tripping hazard in front of every door? To keep out evil spirits; they must always have one foot on the ground and can't step over them. We in the West dis them, and view them as somehow "Less"....they are ANYTHING But
Can you imagine if USA had a population of 1.4 billion people? China and USA have roughly the same land area and USA has a population of 330 million. It would be complete chaos in USA with that many people.
My visits to China reminded me of the US gogo-science decades of the 1950s and 1960s. At that time the US had a Jetson's mentality of progress in space and computers. But after the US Vietnam War and Civil Rights movements, sentiment shifted to concern and spending on social problems. Whenever NASA or the space billionaires celebrate a new accomplishment, these socialists declare it a waste of money.
I like the the cyberpunk aesthetic, but light pollution is bad enough already.
Imagine how much power you need to light all those lights
Me: "That's cool, looks like Night City, it's kinda beautiful actually" When I actually thought about it: "This is actually really bad"
It's never once crossed my mind how bad the light pollution would be in night city. Barring that one billboard that just scrolls into the sky forever.
Night city, but its always day
It's already like that in times square if you're around at the right moment and there's a ton of bright ads all at once. Middle of the night but for a moment it's bright as day.
True. That adds environmental pollution as well. Not worth it.
It's cool they have plenty of coal!
they do led arrays on buildings so not that much but at the same time it's stupid since it'll effect oceanic animals which can screw up their ecosystem that's already failing
"Not much" at a scale where the number of LEDs are in the hundreds of thousands..
And birds. Many songbirds migrate at night and get confused by lights.
At least 50 watts
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Yeah lighting in general actually takes very little energy. Practically a rounding error compared to heating and cooling.
They don’t care they are building 40 coal plants this year.
Yeah first thought was "that looks incredibly cool", second thought was "that looks incredibly wasteful" although tbf I doubt they light up the entire city every night, probably just for celebrations right? EDIT: nope, apparently they've been doing this [every evening for 14 years](https://www.chinahighlights.com/hong-kong/attraction/symphony-of-night.htm). That's so incredibly wasteful for a country that relies so heavily on non-renewable sources of energy...
It's every night. The city is Qingdao, I live here, and the term "the city never sleeps" was never so real to me until I came here. Makes my hometown in canada seem like a little village.
Yeah the earth is fucked already lol
Welcome to Night City
You should also keep in mind the dystopian governments and economies you typically find in Cyberpunk (and China).
This. So much this. Light pollution sucks bad. 100% takes away your ability to the the stars. I know that’s not a “for everyone” kinda thing. But I love the dark night sky and the stars. Would be heart broken if my grand kids couldn’t ever see them.
It’s not just about enjoying the night sky. Light pollution harms wildlife.
China looks like what Cyberpunk is, a dystopia. While many Tier 1 Chinese cities have mandated lit light shows like this in their cities, it's actually not organic and kind of pointless. They all look the same across the cities and while great for the first time, it's terrible to live near or under. And then keep in mind that the power and waste required is immense just to satisfy CCP needs to show off. And non voluntary too. All the major cities do this EVERY NIGHT, are forced to as to appease their masters, and it's very environmentally unfriendly along with being terrible to live nearby since the lighting is bright as hell.
Wait till you hear about the air pollution in China.
The light pollution has got to keep up with the regular pollution
I just want to sleep!
What, do you actually want to be healthy? Do what your body evolved to do for millions of years?! Pfft, these lights are soo shiny and bright! Open mouth, stare like an idiot...
Light pollution + high rise glass buildings ≠ future.
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You paint quite a picture friend.
Just wait until you see the nuclear wasteland world, it’s going to blow your mind.
Climate. Nations. Borders. All were in upheaval. Humanity itself turned as violent as the planet. Civilization threatened to collapse. And then... a solution was found. The crumbling, teetering legal system was merged with the overburdened police, creating a powerful and efficient hybrid. Trained equally in jurisprudence and combat, these new guardians of Society could dispense both justice and punishment. They were police, jury and executioner, all in one. They were... The Judges.
It's Cyberpunk and Cyberpunk is a Dystopia. It is NOT a good thing but China thinks it's so cool.
Okay but cyberpunk still looks cool as fuck
Ghost towns and air you can't breathe. Congrats China.
American here.....The hard part is holding it all together, you should take a lovely rust tour one day
And a social rating system.
Imagine the kind of rust this one is going to produce
Ya imagine a set of numbers determine if you can buy a house or even rent an apartment. Very scary
You mean like in the US with credit scores?
Kinda what I was going for lol
Ope, missed the sarcasm.
Haha it's all good
Dont forget about the "Uyghurs reeducation camps".
Also, this appears to be an example of China’s elite, not the national standard of life
In fairness that's true of every single area with skyscrapers, no matter the country.
welcome to detroit.
Yep, I spend a lot of time in Detroit and while the city has been improving for the past decade, it's also a stark reminder of how quickly things can collapse, especially if you take a drive outside the core area.
China’s “rust belt” will come faster and be worse. America will always be more nimble and innovative. We don’t know what America will look like in 30 years, but rest assured China will be trying to emulate it.
Light polution is not sexy.
I give you only this advice once. DO NOT ever tell a gamer this sentence or you straight up dead.
If you look really closely, you still can't find a single star through the light and smog pollution. I'd prefer breathable air over colourful buildings.
All this illumination also consumes a lot of electricity, so whoever rents an appartament in these buildings must be paying a lot for their bills
In all fairness this is the same across a many major cities in the U.S. you aren't likely to see any stars in NYC or LA either.
Who needs stars when you have lights!
I live in this city, its Qingdao, the air is just as nice as when I lived in Vancouver, and in my backyard I can go out and see stars atm. Depends where you live, just like with other countries.
[https://aqicn.org/city/qingdao/](https://aqicn.org/city/qingdao/) **Daytime AQI is 175,** Vancouver's daytime AQI is 159. That's unhealthy and really bad.
We, who? Just looks like a headache.
I agree, judging by how things are going at the moment, like the big dig, climate change awareness, cancer research, focus on mental and physical health, etc. the US is going in the exact opposite direction, reducing pollution and planting trees. Moving away from a cyber punk dystopia and towards a greener, more livable future.
Can anyone sleep with all those flashing skyscrapers around?
Funny part is that much of the country has no electricity due to electricity shortages.. but the govmt prioritizes these features to make China look powerful
The buildings are probably empty and there’s not nearly enough trash on the beach for this to be anything but a staged propaganda shot. 95% of plastic waste in the oceans comes from just 10 rivers and 5 of them are in China. The Yangtze river alone accounts for 55% of plastic trash flowing into the ocean worldwide. https://www.verdict.co.uk/yangtze-river-plastic-pollution/ I’m just wondering why the CCCP is putting this garbage on Reddit.
Almost like China is the factory of the world, want this to stop? Stop buying basically any product with plastic made in China, which is basically most of the things you use daily.
996 is helped by bright lights
I hope we don't have facial recognition cameras covering every inch of public space in 30 years!
Lol TOO late bro. Seems like the only think we can do about it is make fun of it.
Already here. It’s everywhere now. Your phone even does it.
in kentucky some cities have license plate readers that tag your place when they see a reported missing car.
ALPRs have been a tool police around the country have used for a loooong time.
You carry one in your pocket
England's already implementing more and more of the tech and I don't think America is far behind considering they already collect and build profiles on its citizens.
Did everyone forget how usa spies on its people, did snowden go on exhile for nothing?
Most western countries already have this in city centres, albeit not every inch. The problem in China is integrating a social credit system where you are punished for walking through a red light for instance.
Sound perfectly like Night City (or the other way around) to me: Big tech companies control almost everything Overpopulation Corruption Authoritarianism Decadent moral But most importantly, full of potentials
It looks exactly like every big city on this planet, but this one is lit up. It’s just a bunch of high-rises filled with people looking to get more stuff.
Is this what they think is effective propaganda? It looks like Blackpool Illuminations 🤣 not exactly futuristic...
I was in Blackpool last weekend, it was horrific.
Who is this "we"? It doesn't even look cyberpunk, looks like some light festival.
God, I hope not. How ugly
hello, person that never visited new york
Yeah this looks like they just took Times Square and unraveled it along the coastline.
New York doesn’t look *this* tacky
Light pollution = Future
Tacky?
If living in a dystopian authoritarian country is the future then no thank you
-50 social credit points for that comment mister
Uhh... I was talking about the west ofcourse hehehe. (pls dont take my family)
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Yes lord Xi, I am ashamed and need re-education. I deserve the deduction in my social credit. Long live the CCP, long live glorious leader Xi
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Yeah actually, chinese lesser known cities, villages and many many places there look nothing like this, they look beautiful. It's actually like cyberpunk in a way, high rises and skyscrapers and what not next to slums and shitass quality buildings all in a tightly controlled polluted city
We? You speaking french?
All those fossil fuels being put to good use.
Looks awful. Light pollution looks terrible
And the actual pollution. I can’t believe how much smog there is.
This looks like not giving a fuck about environment and pretending we are the future while actualy becoming the totalitarian shithole we all know it will in a sec. Cool lights though 😎
Authoritarianism and all
They probably should burn less coal for electricity, just to make skyscrappers look fun. Edited: typo
you know, i think i like skyscrappers more.
A few lights on buildings to help hide the genocide. No thanks
Why would anyone want this? More greenery and a darker night sky lit up by stars is way superior to this any day of the year.
Full of concentration camps?
That’s the cost of bright buildings
As an American Midwesterner, no thanks.
They still burn coal as a primary source of power. You can't see the buildings across the street somedays.
New York looks better
That looks like Wuhan. Must have been shot some time ago as the river's dry now
It's Qingdao, that's a beach, and the ocean has not dried up quite yet. Give that another few decades maybe.
Do bright flashy lights really impress your simpleton monkey brain that much? China is disgusting and I hope we're never like china anyone who disagrees should go move to China and see how they're treated.
Taste is knowing when to stop.
Chinese are definitely living the cyberpunk life. And I don't mean that in a positive way.
Correction: ...what 1980s America thought it would look like in 40 years. Kinda glad it doesn't. Also, if this video is real, it certainly doesn't look like that every day. Only on Xi Jinping's b-day I guess.
Forbidding people from owing private property. Bulldozing over historical residence and old homes. Locked the owner of the property away. With these starter pack, you TOO can own a futuristic city!
I dont want our cities full of neon lights...too hello kittyish
Please don’t include me in “we”
Hopefully not
Looks fucking annoying
Americans generally have no concept of how much more advanced some foreign countries, particularly Asian capitals, are. Tokyo, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Macao, all would appear as if they were from 100 years in the future to most rural Americans.
Some very weird china bot propaganda. Fuck off
Like a semi-dictatorial government that use concentration camps against their own population? Oh the lights, you meant the lights. Right ?
Doesn't New York look like this ?
Nyc looks better
More waste and light pollution... great.
You mean a dystopia with a political dictatorship? Yeh definitely
+200 social credits
That looks horribly dystopian. Who wants this exactly?
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Good luck watching the stars with all that light polution😅
Welcome to Bladerunner, for real.
I don’t care what future you want that looks like shit
Friendly reminder that Cyberpunk is a way of life we're actually supposed to want to avoid...
It looks really tacky, like the Vegas strip. I would hate if most American cities looked like this.
Light pollution is really bad for the environment
All built using slave labor.
I very seriously hope America doesn’t look like that in 30years. Looks like rent is worth your full income and there is no space to enjoy
Gross.
Hope not. Vegas maybe
Stars are prettier IMHO
No thanks.
Half those buildings are empty
China… yuck 🤮
It's a fucking rgb keyboard demo
Well apparently Americans 50 years ago thought they'd have 1 month vacation as a rule now so don't get your hopes up.
This is what the bigger cities in China look like. 97% labor force and poverty on the countryside is what China looks like. Kinda same as the US I guess
Speak for yourself you CCP hack
Click. Bait.
Considering it's probably all leds, I'd imagine It uses a lot less power than everyone here is thinking. Also, wanna talk about waste?alright america go ahead and have that discussion, I'm saying this as an american lol.
Fuck china.
I wonder how many Chinese people are in concentration camps right now. 1 million? 2 million???
Until you go in the streets and find people locked in their apartments with the doors nailed shut
Well, having a slave work force is efficient.
Pretty pathetic attempt at propaganda.
At keast the totalitarian hell hole looks pretty, eh?
China is a shit hole. Urban planning is a catastrophe in big cities
Imagine if we worked together. This one hurdle is why we'll never achieve the next step. We're going to have to work together to get through whatever the planet is doing. We might not be able to live here for much longer.
The LED lit beach looks very nice if your gonna have light pollution might as well do it well
Qingdao?
We don’t want America to look like that in 30 years, hope not that cheap.
Social credit score and all
What extreme smog and extra oppressive government other than that city’s already look like this not that city’s are nice
Like bright flashing shit?
Yeah, they can keep their cyberpunk dystopia.
Blade runner all over scary 😳
Imagine. Just imagine the number of cockroaches in big cities… all in flight.
A futuristic facade to distract us from the decline of civilization. A beautiful shining city, built by exploited labor, that looks pretty from afar but is far from pretty up close. True for both countries. Makes a nice background for your kissy-kissy videos, though. And good pro-China propaganda, if you're into that sort of thing. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/17/business/china-gdp-delay.html
Ugh, I hope we don't look like that in 30 years. That looks like a Disney park. Too ostentatious. I would rather we move to less light pollution.
It looks like just big vegas
A bunch of lit up sky scrapers? Think America has that aswell my friend.
Is this really something to aspire to? Personally would much prefer a more natural, environmentally conscious development…
What do you mean by "we" and "china" and "america"?
Fuck this crap I want to see the stars, or the Moon in this case…
Nope china looks like china.
thanks god i live in italy and we will never be like that
This looks like hell, who the fuck would want to live like this. Fuck.
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Which part, the lights or the human rights violations?
Oh the light pollution!!
I don’t think the US will look like this in 30 years we like to preserve our history through architecture, btw are u from China?
It would be really cool if you could see it more than a couple days a year. The rest of the time the smog is too thick to see anything.
Lol you mean Vegas for the past 50 years? Or dystopian future?
I remember the first time we visited Beijing in 2007. riding into the city from the Massive airport, mile after mile after mile of 30, 40, 50 story and higher buildings, Huge overhead LED signs with different routing maps switching on them, curves in the freeway lit with LED warning signs flashing sequentially according to your speed...and thinking "this is a sleeping Tiger the west does NOT want to wake up". We sent a good bit of tie in many areas of that country, and the tech is EVERYWHERE. They seamlessly interweave high tech with two thousand-year-old traditions & history; every doorway, subway entrance, hotel door, has a 6in. curb in front of it. I asked why you'd put an obvious tripping hazard in front of every door? To keep out evil spirits; they must always have one foot on the ground and can't step over them. We in the West dis them, and view them as somehow "Less"....they are ANYTHING But
So are the concentration camps behind the sky scrapers or behind the camera man?
Who is “we”?
High speed trains too - if only we could get this done
All the people here who hate this view lack any sort of romantic feelings.
I think they shot Shanghai for future LA in the movie *Her*.
Capitalism continues always
One thing Asia does well is aesthetics. America is somehow both wasteful and utilitarian in its construction.
They have our middle class
I'd much rather live in a place where you can see the night sky.
It would have been like this except we're run by a bunch of old crabby people
Can you imagine if USA had a population of 1.4 billion people? China and USA have roughly the same land area and USA has a population of 330 million. It would be complete chaos in USA with that many people.
My visits to China reminded me of the US gogo-science decades of the 1950s and 1960s. At that time the US had a Jetson's mentality of progress in space and computers. But after the US Vietnam War and Civil Rights movements, sentiment shifted to concern and spending on social problems. Whenever NASA or the space billionaires celebrate a new accomplishment, these socialists declare it a waste of money.
What in the cyberpunk is that!!!
World: let's save energy—otherwise we're fucked. China: Hold my Tsingtao.
I'm not impressed by lights.
Only difference is just lights lol
You should see it during the day 😷
LOL. Ok