would also sound like an anachronism

Staying encrusted in a small town in India, reading and then interpreting Baudrillard, his despairing vision of hyper-reality, seems foreign. A distance gets created, and yet a few years of exposure to ICT, the consequent debates regarding AI, Virtual Reality, and Simulation, growing also in an India where both (pre- and post-) industrialization is simultaneously taking place, placing ones’ ideas for a not so quite distant science-fiction in India, would also sound like an anachronism, for don’t cities like Mumbai have potentials of burgeoning Simcities, attaining the status of a “Post-Metropolis”, like Los Angeles or New York, soon, very soon?