Though it stumbles as it steps towards the future, it is at least heading in the right direction. While SimCity collapsed entirely under scrutiny, its first expansion Cities of Tomorrow merely teeters. Then occasionally, just occasionally, something will knock us out of that daze and we'll realise just how silly the future has turned out. We will be so rapt, so amazed by the omnipresence of progress, that we won't notice that the maglev train has got stuck, that the school bus is circling like a shark, that our friends can't find the shops next door. We will work in buildings that are great sentinels of metal and light. Automated drones will keep us healthy, keep us tidy, even make sure we obey the law. Our homes will be at the top of towers thousands of feet tall, all of them connected by shining bridges that cut through the sky. In the future, we will all live in a daze, stunned by the technology that will surround us.
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