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Today’s supertalls may boggle the mind, but they are stunningly factual, immediately obvious, impossible to overlook. It’s their children, the unbuilt towers of futurity, that are surrounded by a dense, foggy haze of harbingers. Futurist scenarios can prove useful here. Scenarios cause loose ideas to separate and clump into trends.
I’ll do a little quadrant-work in my brief essay here, and describe four differing yet plausible classes of future skyscraper. Let’s choose a twenty year time-frame: the 2030s.