credits: The World

Masters of Some Universe

Someone's house will be New York City.

The World, “water-based island masterplan” off the coast of Dubai, is ready for developers to start building custom $10 million island communities and resorts.

Massive sand-tankers built The World one archipelago at a time by spraying earth into the sea. How God is that?

Transportation around the aqueous city-state will be almost entirely by boat, ensuring that it’s only a matter of time before these azure waters are the setting for some imaginative outburst of zombie plague. This entire setup seems like an ad from the Umbrella Corporation.