CNN Promotes Wakanda as a Model for the Future

CNN ran a story this week entitled: “Why Wakanda might be a model for our future cities.”

I’m not even joking. You can read it here.

Next week they will likely run a story explaining:

“Why Hogwarts should be a model for our future schools”.

And I can’t wait for …

“What Mordor will teach us about Canberra”.

Wakanda is the utopian city that featured in the Black Panther movies.

My friend from Atlantis says Wakanda is not real.

Shhhhhh … CNN don’t know that!

Anyway, I think the main learning from Wakanda is that we need to find massive deposits of a metal so rare that it is only found in comic books.

If we can get our hands on enough vibranium (which doesn’t exist) we will be able to build a utopian paradise that defies all sorts of scientific and physical laws.

I’m old enough to remember when everyone got angry at Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young for not understanding that Sea Patrol was just a TV show. But I digress.

If Wakanda is going to be a model for future cities, the learnings could be summarised like this:

Step One: Have access to magic space rocks

Step Two: Create urban utopia

Big if true!

Thanks CNN.