The Design of Your Life设计生活

Those old sci-fi movies were wrong. The twenty-first century doesn’t look at all the way they said it would. We citizens of the future aren’t wearing conformist jumpsuits， living in utilitarian1 high-rises， or getting our food in the form of dreary-looking pills. On the contrary， we are demanding and creating a stimulating， diverse， and strikingly well-designed world. We like our vacuum cleaners and mobile phones to sparkle， our backpacks and laptops to express our personalities. We expect trees and careful landscaping in our parking lots， peaked roofs and decorative facades on our supermarkets， and auto dealerships as swoopy2 and stylish as the cars they sell.

以前那些科幻片中的描述都错了，21世纪根本就不是电影里所设想的那样。（剩余7723字）