This passage gives a lot of examples of imaginary worlds that inspired from the film. This raises a question for me. What would the future world be? I think imaginary world should be the world that people want in the future, should be full of love and passion. However, some imaginary worlds in film are really full of dark and pessimistic.
People seems to be worried about their future, they usually tend see everything in a negative way. For example, people are afraid that one day AI may invade the Earth and dominate the world. I think people should put more attention to a better world and live optimistic. However, the things that imagined by people can also push the development of the technology, like sky city. This can improve the world development.
——TSOI Ying Ying (3035792676)
There has always been suspicion toward the unknown future (remember how Walter Benjamin challenged modernity?). However, what Abbot tried to do might be to provoke the what-if scenarios in the cities. What if the cities are physically moving? How would they move and how would they organise themselves? Maybe, what he was trying to do is providing a platform for planners and theorists to rethink the cities (as he mentioned in the last sentences of his article). That way, he was taking the imaginative writing to spatial discourse, as Boyer did with her cyber-cities in the 1990s.