Welcome to Disneyland with the death penalty. Back in 1993, WIRED sent William Gibson (GreatDismal) to Singapore to see whether that clean dystopia represents our techno future:
I’m actually not kidding. It’s unclear to me when, exactly, the ban was reversed, but for a time WIRED was not allowed into Singapore. In an ironic twist, this taps into Gibson’s anxieties about the island nation’s authoritarian streak. To be fair, there’s no denying his impressions of the country, while fascinating and rich, are othering, even caustic. “Singapore is curiously, indeed gratifyingly devoid of certain aspects of creativity,” he writes at one point.
Honestly, I doubt this piece would get assigned in 2023. The politics of sending someone off to write about visiting a foreign country on the other side of the world are more fraught now than they used to be, and for good reason. But credit where credit is due: There’s something brilliant about enlisting a science fiction writer to pen a nonfiction story about travelling to a far-off land.
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