What about this?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3568505.stm
Maybe this is how we'll read in the future...?
I'm with Namorvia; it has to be solar-powered or similarly green. There's so much green technology still to be developed. Imagining what could be is fascinating, and imagining new ways to exist on this planet is the way we have to go. I don't think there's an option!
I get a lot of mail asking about the technology and architecture - the way people live - in EXODUS and ZENITH. For me, speculative fiction (novels that 'wonder' about the future) works as an imaginative twist or projection of what exists here, now.
If the oceans rise, could towering sky cities and vast sea bridges ever exist? Well...
Here are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpar. 32,000 windows. (It's easy to imagine the pinnacle as New Mungo's cybercathedral, and Fox perhaps in that lone bright window towards the top.)
Lake Pontachartrain Causeway, Louisiana, US (almost 24 miles long)
What's interesting is I only saw these images AFTER I had imagined them and written about them.
Floating cities?
http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~bat/sea-city.html
In Zenith, there is a mountain city, set with scavenged car doors that the ocean has washed up. That outlandish idea came from a photo of a Palestinian child outside the front door of his home, which was a car door set in a dirt burrow in a bombed crater. Astonishing.