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Evening Standard – JOHN BROWNE & ROHAN SILVA – 30 May 2019
The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed yet. So said science fiction writer William Gibson, and if you want proof that he was onto something, all you need to do is book a flight to Shenzhen, a sprawling metropolis on China’s southern coast.
When you arrive there you can’t help but feel that, in some ways, you’ve stepped forward in time. The buses and taxis all glide by soundlessly because every one is powered by electric motors rather than polluting diesel engines. The entire city is blanketed by ultra-fast 5G mobile internet coverage — fully a generation ahead of the UK’s patchy mobile network. And public transport ticket machines, bank ATMs and hundreds of retailers make use of sophisticated facial-recognition software, so you no longer have to reach for your bank card to make a purchase.
This might sound futuristic but the fact is …
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