utopia

  • Saudi Arabia Wants to Build This Bizarre City Dubbed ‘The Line’

    Saudi Arabia Wants to Build This Bizarre City Dubbed ‘The Line’

    Saudi Arabia is developing a new city, 150-stories tall and built from scratch, that will serve as a semi-enclosed environment where people can live and work without ever stepping foot outside. And while the promotional videos released Monday are likely an attempt to give the development a utopian feel that recalls so many “intentional cities”…


  • Are We Already Living in a Tech Dystopia?

    Are We Already Living in a Tech Dystopia?

    For the most part, fictional characters rarely recognise when they’re trapped in a dystopia. Watching their neighbours get carted off for harbouring subversive thoughts, they almost never say, “I wish we weren’t living in this dystopia.” To them, that dystopia is just life. Which suggests that — were we, at this moment, living in a…