[sudhirj]

A lot of sci-fi already makes this premise. The bright future is not one of concrete and metal, it’s sunsets and trees and lakes tended to by invisible robots, with all the ugly machines, generators and data centres buried deep in rock.

[Loughla]

I like the future offered by Iain Banks in the culture series.

Nature isn't 'natural'by any sense of the word. But the advanced machines all tend to show an interest in maintaining natural spaces for humans to enjoy. And the machines are part of the beauty as well!

[euroderf]

No Mind wants to be responsible for a wholly Brutalist petting zoo.

[WillAdams]

Or, a fully biologic solution, even for a space habitat as was envisioned in John Varley's "Gaea" Trilogy: _Titan_, _Wizard_, and _Demon_.

[zabzonk]

To quibble a little Gaea is not fully biological. For instance, at one point a particle accelerator is mentioned as being in the ship's shell, and both the original (well, latest) Gaea entity and later Gaby are obviously running on some giant supercomputer somewhere. The inhabitants (crew?) are certainly biological, though.

[qingcharles]

In Arthur C. Clarke's 3001 they have velociraptors as gardeners and babysitters. When are we getting that?