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STEPHEN BAYLEY

hat’s the future of car design? In Californian campus dormitories and next-generation airliners, OLED screens will replace windows too thermally inefficient for dorms and too heavy for flight. That, of course, is if airliners and students still exist a few years from now: each seems near extinction. Meanwhile, if Zuckerberg has his ferrety way, travel of any sort will become redundant and VR will make tourism, in my case schlepping footsore through Rome, a memory. But quite how a headset can

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