Tim

The way we are going, the city of the future will be a global agglomeration. There will be pockets of wildlife, probably, but all minutely managed and controlled, in just sufficient quantities to balance the global ecosystem. The majority of the people living in the city will be Chinese, and its most prestigious project will be the space elevator.

Equilibrium management skills will be its most highly valued economic commodity. At the personal level, communication and information systems will be so integrated with normal everyday functioning that the borderline between the virtual and the real, the abstract network and the concrete surroundings, will have become irreversibly blurred.