Editorial 3

摘要

We are all familiar with those Sunday supplement visions of the 21st century which invariably seemed to involve flying cars and people in tin foil onesies. The truth, as it has turned out, is rather less shiny and more of a strange hybrid of sci fi and the stubbornly traditional. On the one hand, we have rapidly become familiar, even blase, with what only a few years ago would have been deemed futuristic fantasy - the tablet, the smart phone, the iWatch, the Minority Report touch screens, even the Bladerunner-esque moving images on building facades. On the other hand, cars are still earthbound and coughing out CO2, and much of our street lighting stock is crumbling and reliant on such an outdated source as sox. The future was meant to be bright but not orange in that respect.