Very low noise level. Accurate movements, quiet communications. Impossible entertainment violating the life of a neighbor. However, individuals may be provided any kind of entertainment using the isolating technologies guarding the peace of the others.
No mass entertainment near the lodging places. No person should be involved in the other's action against their will.
For a XX century person, that life may seem too unemotional and dull. This is because the major part of the emotional side of life is hidden, never made public. Emotions are shown in a strictly dozed way to those who is intended to know about them only.
Cleanness everywhere. People trying to keep their environment clean, and reducing any natural dirt. It is impossible for anybody to through waste in an inappropriate place, or bring dirt to a public place. The individual lifestyle also avoiding untidiness, without necessity of a rigid order.
Air conditioning in the streets. Weather control.
Green streets everywhere: lanes, forests and fields. However, not wild nature, but rather a well-cultivated environment, with no destructive interference between the nature and the people.
Free choice of the place to live. Moveable houses and towns, transportable household as a common way of life.
No rooms choked up with many things. All that is beyond the demands of individual hygiene can be borrowed from the public stock at any time. The exhaustible goods borrowed from the same source when needed, without storing beforehand.
Global network where everybody may get any information of interest, or submit information presumably interesting for some other people.
No mass media (press, radio, TV, etc). No journalism. Any information intended for public circulation can be taken from the global network, and nobody tries to expose the other's life. No event is considered of interest for everybody, and no information is flushed on those who don't need it.
Decent appearance never offending the feelings of other people.
Simple and functional clothes. However, individual details are always welcome to express the peculiarities of the person or the current mood. Taste education.
Careful operation with things, trying to make them live as long as possible.
Life prolonged as much as needed, but easily terminated when subjectively expired. Birth and death are not considered as something too remarkable — just two of the myriads of possible conscious acts, never requiring special attention.
No rites and traditions. Creativity everywhere.
Each individual can live in environment that suits whatever needs and desires that individual has. However, the people are reasonable in their phantasies, and they never do anything for mere originality. Modesty and care for the interests of the others.
People never consume more than needed, and everybody tries to be as economic as possible, but without too much self-restriction. If somebody demands something special, the others will never ask why, they will simply provide it, trusting the person's good sense.
No "official" holidays or festivities. People live in their own rhythm, working or relaxing when it is convenient. No crowds attracted by some event, since everybody can have all the information at any moment.
A rational calendar eliminating the traditional irregularities. Stable time units, with the same relative phases every year. New time scales introduced by space flights: solar system time and galactic time.
People never hurry. There is no risk to be late. No worry for a possible failure or mistake: the others will always correct it. No wish to do something by any means. If one cannot complete some piece of work in time, one will pass it to somebody else, being sure that it will be done in the best way possible.
Contributors
Ivan Efremov (USSR)
Etienne Cabet (France)
Thomas More (England)
Sirano de Bergérac (France)
Alexander Bogdanov (Russia)
Pavel Ivanov (Russia)
Jon Will (USA)
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