Many of the most compelling visions in these museums
rely on infrastructure: the ability to build trains,
buildings, cities, networks, and orbital space platforms.
At the moment, that’s one thing we in the US seem to
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our transportation systems are crumbling, and our
ambitions have largely collapsed from the realm of the
physical into the virtual. We are more Ready Player
One than Star Trek.
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it. As the seas rise, we need to be ready to build to meet
them. Will we do so, or will we become that ruin I
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In the 21st
century, just
being virtual
isn’t going to
cut it. As the
seas rise, we
need to be
ready to build
to meet them.PC MAGAZINE DIGITAL EDITION (^) I SUBSCRIBE (^) I APRIL 2020