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August 06, 2008

Shanghai Streets: China's Technology & Economic Future-A Galaxy Video Classic

Shanghai4Don't miss this brilliant tour de force of Shanghai, the epicenter of the East, twin-sister city of New York.

Situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta in East China, Shanghai is the technology and broadband capital and largest city of the People's Republic of China and the ninth largest in the world.

& ChShanghai is the setting of the upcoming George Clooney TV series based on the retro cyberpunk novel, The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson, who will adapt the miniseries from his novel. Diamone Age breaks new ground in a series that forecasts the coming nanotechnological revolution. Stephenson creates a future in which molecular machines can create any object or structure. National governments have broken down, leaving society divided into "tribes" along ethnic, cultural, and ideological lines, the most dynamic of which are the new-Victorian Atlanteans near the ancient city of Shanghai. Posted by Casey Kazan.

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