The World Inside

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MyLot Exclusive #38 Can you picture yourself living in a giant skyscraper with 800,000 other people? In a place where refusing sexual advances is a capital crime? And if you're found guilty of that or any other crime...Without a trial or even being arrested by proper law enforcement officials...You can simply be executed? If you've never done it, don't sweat it, because Robert Silverberg did it for you when he published The World Inside, in 1971. And the reason I'm talking about it today isn't that I'm reviewing it again. It's because I recently saw yet another futuristic prediction about huge buildings housing insane numbers of people. I don't know how far this will ultimately go but given that they say we can now build one kilometer (That's for 0.62 miles for everyone who's updated their measuring system) high buildings should we ever feel like it, it seems like this is another case where Science Fiction is merging with Science Fact. That fascinates me and I wonder what other people think of it. Should things go the way Mr. Silverberg saw it happening, will we doom ourselves to his mostly unhappy world? Or can we manage to do it right? How much faith do you have left in the human race? Especially right now, given the fact that the United States just put a rapist on the Supreme Court? Is that the future or an unfortunate mistake made by stupid people that we can easily correct? Along with all the other stupid mistakes? Here's some more information on the book, if you're interested. And if you actually want to read it, which I recommend because it's pretty good, I imagine you can find it for free on one of the e-reader sites: