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Google gets go-ahead to build a huge new neighborhood by Bay Area HQ (www.sfgate.com)

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Google got unanimous approval from Mountain View's city council to build a new 153-acre...

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[–] HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is the opening premise to the book Parable of the Sower - a dystopian novel that in the sequel, many observers have seen greater similarities to the U.S. in 2017-2023 than in The Handmaids Tale - except it was described more like a neighborhood next to something like what we would call an Amazon warehouse.

[–] phikshun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Kinda hilarious that Butler thought everyone would lose their homes to drugged up pyromaniacs rather than the reality: the homes will still exist just no one will be able to afford to live in them. Maybe she figured that this would be too unbelievable for readers to engage with.

I suspect the US's path might be like Parable, with a big spoonful of The Water Knife and a dash of Ministry of the Future.