When Does the Future Start?

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Vaporwave futuristic city for FTD Publisher

I was commissioned by FTD brazilian publisher to create a double-page spread illustration showing a possible and imaginative futuristic city. Based in personal research, I've come with some funny ideas about situations that could be part of this hi-tech and nature-integrated environment. See the images below for more detail.

Below, you can see a hi-tech school with some innovative ways of learning: virtual reality chairs, robot construction lessons, holographic geometric models and floating virtual screens.

I've drawn also some floating gardens and vegetable farms raised by robot workers. People can choose and buy their vegetables there through the use of floating screens. Also, we can see some flying trash cans that are able to scan and clean the trash around the city.

Below, we can see a robot-driven university full of remote students. A "Super Eats" robot is delivering food to some clients while a worm-like bus carries some passengers. Also, we can see a glass-sphere full of plants and sea flora that are used to purify the air.

People also love to have a relaxing time at digital coffee flying shops.

Here, some old people wear powered exoeskeletons that allow them to play a

new hi-tech sport: Mech Wrestling.

Below, is the most cute teacher ever:

an holographic bear provides physical activities lessons.

At last, here we can see a vermin-like trash-eater that goes around the city searching the full trash cans and eating their content for recycling. We can also spot two people wearing digital-filter masks that projects emoticon images over their faces. People all around have lots of different robotic gadgets attached to their bodies, maximizing their senses and capacities.

Everywhere, nature is integrated with artificial buildings. Also, lots of neon advertising signs bring constantly changing visual information to our futuristic city inhabitants. Can you spot other future innovations in the illustration?