Within a generation, those unable to afford time outside Toronto's dense urban environment will resort to Nature Deficit Disorder Clinics, where they will get essential dietary supplements along with a virtual rainforest immersion and brain scan. In Singapore, a popular museum exhibition will chart the startling social transformations over the previous few decades in romance, sex and marriage, including the introduction of state-subsidised love robots to maintain well-being across the population. Mexico City will be subject to severe flooding, and a peer-to-peer emergency service called Operacion Axolotl will emerge as citizens step up to meet each other's basic needs.
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