Sunday, November 22, 2009
The Future Looks Wet
These potentially-not-so-surreal renderings by Studio Lindfor of modern cities plunged (literally) into a futuristic-looking Dark Age are presented by Inhabitat.com during a week where parts of both the U.K and Canada have been swamped by copious amounts of rain. 
Such depictions of flooded yet inhabited cities call to mind the floating markets of Bangkok or Vietnam, the stilt communities along the Amazon River and the most touristed of all - Venice, Italy.
Prospects of underwater worlds draw attention to how infinitely explorable our planet is. Think you've been everywhere? Just wait a few decades until Tokyo turns into an aquarium and then start all over again...or wait a few dozen decades until inter-planetary travel becomes possible, then start collecting stamps in your galactic passport.
As the face of the globe changes, so will the places humans will want to visit, and ultimately write about. I think this bodes well for the future of travel writing.
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