The Future, Open to the Public

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Once, the future was something people argued about. Then it became something
they planned. Here, it is something you can walk through on your lunch break.

This city was not built to astonish—though it often does—but to function. Its towers
are shaped by airflow and sunlight, not monumentality. Its transit ways curve where
people naturally wish to go. Gardens are not decoration; they are infrastructure.
Vehicles move because they must, not because they may. Every surface reflects a
decision already tested, revised, and made routine. What was once experimental
has become municipal.

Visitors often remark on what is absent. There are no warning sirens, no heroic
statuary, no sense of emergency. Nothing strains to announce itself as Important.
The great work has already been done: energy solved, transport civilized, density
made humane. Progress no longer needs to shout. It files permits, balances ledgers,
and opens on time.

This is the future after triumph—after scarcity was addressed, after crises were
survived, after technology stopped asking for faith and started delivering services.
People dress well because they have time to. They walk calmly because the city
keeps its promises. Above them, traffic flows with the confidence of a solved
equation; below, systems hum that no one needs to think about anymore.

Behold—the FUTURE!!!