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Monday Topsight, June 30, 2008

Posted on June 30, 2008

Flooded London: Media designers Squint/Opera have come up with a project they call Flooded London: 2090, a set of illustrations of London in a late global warming world. As a piece of anticipatory illustration, it's startlingly idyllic -- pictures of a city that has gone past the crisis stage, to a life goes on mode for the survivors. To be sure, it's not a happy scenario -- one can only imagine how many millions of people would have perished to get to this point -- but it does illustrate just how resilient humankind can be.I do have to admit, though, that the first thing I thought when I...

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