Future Tense

Future Tense

Digital Twin Cities

The simulation that runs alongside the real thing

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A Z Mackay
Jul 09, 2025
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Singapore’s ghosts are casting shadows before the living exist. Virtual sunsets illuminate walkways that haven’t been poured. Planners manipulate phantom rooflines, watching digital darkness fall across non-existent pavement. They adjust. The shadows shift. Satisfied, they test wind patterns through corridors that exist only as coordinates.

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