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Societal Impact of the TARDIS effect being available to the masses?

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It's known that by the 31st Century, the capability to have a vessel that is larger on the inside then on the outside is a technology that is available to some degree to the Federation.

What if that kind of "Larger on the Inside" technology was available to everybody?

Everybody can practically live in a Mansion in their own Pocket dimension.

How would that change society?
 
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Earth_vessel_(31st_century)

It's known that by the 31st Century, the capability to have a vessel that is larger on the inside then on the outside is a technology that is available to some degree to the Federation.

What if that kind of "Larger on the Inside" technology was available to everybody?

Everybody can practically live in a Mansion in their own Pocket dimension.

How would that change society?
Since municipal property taxes are something I was arguing about on FB awhile ago, that's what comes to mind immediately. Most cities get a significant portion of their funding through residents' property taxes, whether they own houses or apartment buildings (a portion of each tenant's rent would be earmarked for this tax).

How do you tax something that can't be measured in any meaningful way, and (in the case of TARDISes) can look like anything? How would that affect services to the public (assuming that not everyone lives in one of these machines)?


The social aspect would be a definite society-changer. With all that room at your disposal - plenty of room for even large families - would people bother socializing outside anymore?
 
That's Day of the Doctor 50th anniversary special had a really cool bit where a 3D painting on a wall was a lot more than that. It was a glimpse at how that technology would change everything about a people, even their art.
 
Just Imagine if every person only needing a large Phone Booth & Door to access their personal "Pocket Dimension" of virtually limit-less private property, that would EASILY redefine "Real Estate".

One small home could house numerous closets.

One SkyScraper could house thousands of closets.
 
With TARDIS apartments it would be possible to space two facing doors every 38"x40". So 28 door pairs could fit in a 300 sqr foot (27.9 m^2) studio apartment. Each of those apartments can be any size internally. It would allow anyone to live anywhere with extremely minimal impact on the environment.

Even if the minimum external size is greater than a door frame, and instead the size of the TARDIS like ship in the Enterprise episode we still end up with apartments which I think take up half the space at 150 sqr feet, and can be arbitrarily large on the inside. The impact is greater but still has enormous benefits to living flexibility and population density. It still decouples, to an extent, the value of where a home is placed, issues of privacy, and internal size.

In either case this solves one of the issues with Earth being moneyless, the fact that real estate is finite. Even with the ability to cheaply and easily build as high as anyone could ever want, there would still be people who value isolation or nature, or pursuits which require nature. Picard's vinyard for instance is kind of hard to pull off in a skyscraper, not impossible, but not the same thing, and would require a vast amount of space even as a hydroponic setup. Real estate idealistically has some sort of value beyond pure square footage.
 
Looking on this as a whole, it's easy to see that the technology would easily change everything as others have already discussed. I'm going to point out some not so evident, but perhaps equally impactful effects of this technology. First, if the interior living space is fully isolated from the exterior- that is to say power and life support are provided in situ with no need for exterior support, you have effectively reduced or nearly eliminated the need for utilities. Without enough demand any service or business will cease operation. Utilities are no different. So that old infrastructure will likely stop being utilized. That means those people employed in maintaining and providing those services will have to find some other work. In a utopian world like the Federation, with these machines/devices we will assume that they do so, for the time being.

Second, while it's easy to say, "make it so" and it happens fictionally, the implications of this technology on resources will be rather dramatic. Consider- if a family of four people live inside one of these machines/devices, all of their consumables (life support & nutrition) and waste is handled in situ, then any food they ate, fluids they drank, and oxygen they have in their cells that they respirated while outside of their living spaces will be sequestered inside these units. That means short-term (in the thousands of years) that any need for extensive waste disposal and recycling is eliminated- city or urban living spaces will likely be pristine, and litter will probably be unheard of. Long-term (many thousands, to millions of years off) this draw on resources will start to negatively impact the environment. I can imagine water would easily be the most notable resource to begin to "tap out" (sorry, I couldn't resist the pun)- with more and more people depositing and sequestering water into their residences as time goes by from exterior sources of supply (when they eat at restaurants, or bring home farm grown goods for the novelty of cooking "real food" for the family). Carbon will also be lost, as will oxygen. On a geologic time scale this could change a planet from a Earth-like lush paradise, to a arid dying world where the carbon-cycle is no more.

Third and finally, if these machines/devices are utilized for not only living spaces, but for offices, warehouses, fabrication facilities, and social spaces- what happens to architecture? What happens to architectural design? I could see one resultant element to this adoption of such technology- the adoption and development of architectural design as an expression or power/influence, or control over resources. In other words, the bigger your "foot print" in the real world, the more effective influence and power you wield. Likewise, owning any real world real estate or resources could be considered by many a mark of prestige, or by others as someone who lives in the past and is unable or unwilling to let go of tethers to a world long gone. Those are just some of my thoughts on implications of such TARDIS-like technology.
 
Can an outdoor environment be perfectly replicated within your personal pocket dimension? If not, I would still spend a great deal of time recreating in the real-life outdoors.

Kor
 
Can an outdoor environment be perfectly replicated within your personal pocket dimension? If not, I would still spend a great deal of time recreating in the real-life outdoors.
Would you prefer a "Synthetic" outdoors using "Particle Synthesis". Holographic variant created with Force Fields. Or Real version where you imported the actual outdoors into your private domain?
 
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