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Question of the Day? Next City?

By lmcshane
Created 06/29/2008 - 09:56

The June 8, 2008 NYT Magazine was entitled Next City. 

My question would be--Next City?

A.O. Scott in his essay, Metropolis Now--How yesterday's film sets became today's cities [1], describes the future as portrayed in films such as Blade Runner and Code 46 [2].  Scott doesn't mention it, but in Blade Runner [3], the mobile elite have left Planet Earth and live on space colonies, and in Code 46, the mobile elite live in cities with the genetically-inferior living on the outskirts.  We also have the vision of the apocalyptic future predicted by the Planet of the Apes [4]. 


So, NEO, which scenario is it?

(And, in answer to Joe Frolik's question of the day 6/29/2008:
How is Cleveland doing?--I would posit the question: where do you live, and where do you plan on living a year from now?)
 

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[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/magazine/08wwln-lede-t.html?ex=
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_46
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_apes