The Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) is preparing to launch before the year ends a $5-billion development project that will transform a sizeable chunk of the Clark reservation into a fully automated, state-of-the-art metropolis to be known as “Green City”. The planned development will consist of five nodes: government center, central business district, academic center, agro-industrial area and eco-tourism and wellness area.

The academic center will be so automated that students can attend classes while lying down in a hospital bed or at home. This will be made possible through the use of modern technology which will allow the student to listen to the professor’s lecture and participate in class recitations even without being physically present in the classroom. In fact, an arrangement can be made so that lectures being delivered overseas will be beamed live to a classroom in the ”Green City” thereby allowing students to get international education without having to go overseas. Reports PhilStar.