The future is here, and not the one with jetpacks

[major_clanger]

Read this article on the current situation in Dubai, and tell me if you too get the feeling that this is a J G Ballard story from Interzone some fifteen years ago? (Or feel free to nominate another author/magazine/era this feels like).

Nothing in this piece is news to me. But it's sobering to read it all put together.

Comments

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Thanks for linking to this. It really is appalling. No surprises, alas, but as you say, seeing it all in one piece is sobering. We have a customer who works in Dubai and might be going out later this year (he's with one of the airlines, if it survives). He's very cynical about the whole enterprise.