可惜，这个不大不小的计划资金从何而来，不为人知。 而且随着工作的展开和成本的激增，这一“愿景”更像是科幻，而非科学。

It was, unfortunately, unclear how this modest proposal would be paid for and, as work began and costs spiralled, the “vision” seemed more science fiction than science.

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不过，虽然建筑师被要求设计2108的城市，他们的许多科幻想象似乎更贴近现实，而非100年以后。

But while the architects were asked to design the city in 2108, many of their sci-fi visions are seemingly closer at hand than 100 years into the future.

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十年前，当一种科幻小说中出现的被设计用来制服对方而非杀死对方的电子枪投产时，世界各地的警方纷纷抢购。

WHEN an electronic gun designed to immobilise but not kill emerged from the pages of science fiction and went into manufacture a decade ago, police forces around the world snapped it up.

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