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		walterbell on Aug 18, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Great Chinese Exodus Albert Brooks' novel 2030 is set in LA after a major earthquake, where China offers to rebuild LA in exchange for a half-ownership stake, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/books/albert-brookss-2030-...

femto on Aug 19, 2014 [–]

Interesting, because there is a group that actually proposed actually doing a smaller scale version of this in Sydney.

http://www.smh.com.au/data-point/swap-you-chinese-skyscraper...

walterbell on Aug 19, 2014 | [–]

Brooks' (2011) book also predicted pervasive smartwatches. Not exactly great literature, but many predictions.

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