Visited Shanghai in 2019 on my way home from Tokyo and I would concur with this. It was “the city of the future” we all saw in concept art, minus the hover cars (they had lots of helicopters tho).
It’s a real shame that Great Chinese Firewall separated off communication and fueled distrust with Chinese and Western citizens. Our governments and businesses may butt heads over a tonne of things, but there is a lot of tech and lifestyle stuff I would love to import from there, and I have many friends in Shanghai that think the same of our lifestyles in Europe. Too bad collaboration is close to impossible at this point.
Visited Shanghai in 2019 on my way home from Tokyo and I would concur with this. It was “the city of the future” we all saw in concept art, minus the hover cars (they had lots of helicopters tho).
It’s a real shame that Great Chinese Firewall separated off communication and fueled distrust with Chinese and Western citizens. Our governments and businesses may butt heads over a tonne of things, but there is a lot of tech and lifestyle stuff I would love to import from there, and I have many friends in Shanghai that think the same of our lifestyles in Europe. Too bad collaboration is close to impossible at this point.