There’s art about ubiquitous surveillance, a decent mockery of Bitcoin, crazy
biological building shapes, and a virtual diva. It doesn’t tell you how we’re going
to get to these places as a society, but it does plant hope in your mind.
Human ingenuity isn’t used up, the show tells you. If you’ve been wondering
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(except for the sustainable city designs—they’re good), but it’s proof that people
are working on and thinking about innovations beyond better ways to steal
elections and serve up more targeted ads.
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provoked both hope for humanity and despair for America. European architects
and Asian artists in the show use bacteria for data storage and imagine cities on
the sea, but in the US, we’re stuck “rolling coal” while our transportation and
healthcare systems crumble around us. Our most brilliant inventors seem to be
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