Kid Cary

 
     
 
     
 

Brave New World

On Tuesday, I drove over to see the opening of CityCenter. I have been driving past the site and monitoring construction for the past few years. Now, finally, my big chance to walk around and see the place for myself.

MGM Mirage CityCenter

As I walked the long, winding sidewalks and bridges of concrete, glass and metal, I got a weird feeling. I was no longer in Las Vegas in the year 2009, but in a strange land sometime in the future, not inhabited by humans, maybe robots. Everything about CityCenter is cold. No joy, just a stark grayness.

MGM Mirage CityCenter

All you see in every direction is concrete, glass and metal. There are small patches of plant life, but no sense that humans had any hand in planting them. Walking around, I felt like I was in a post-apocalypse science fiction movie, where machines run everything, and humans are there only to consume—or maybe be consumed.

MGM Mirage CityCenter

  
     
 
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