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I had a vision in my mind while reading this of a dystopian (utopian??) future where city states are empty of people, and the country sides are sparsely populat
by all2 4y ago
I had a vision in my mind while reading this of a dystopian (utopian??) future where city states are empty of people, and the country sides are sparsely populated. The people in the cities died out long ago, but no one knows that. They just see these giant glistening walled gardens, with aircraft flying around, and it all looks very busy and amazing. But the truth is its just the machine, maintaining itself, talking to itself. Eventually it will go insane.
- FooBarBizBazz 4y agoThere Will Come Soft Rains https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20So...
- akiselev 4y agoReminds me of the Doctor Who episode Gridlock [1] set five billion years in the future. The entire planet is covered by a city called New New York with the remainder of humanity living in a perpetual traffic jam in the dystopian bottom half of the city. A mutated virus wiped out all the people living in the utopian top half of the city while sealing everyone left alive in the bottom half to constantly drive around with nowhere to go, with systems barely maintained by the Face of Bo. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_(Doctor_Who)