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AI Is Creating A Surreal Future For These Historic Sites & Buildings

AI creates an imagined future for some of the world's most historic buildings.

Futuristic highway next to historic rock carved building.
Al-Dier in the future. AI generated, 2024.

Future: Empire State Building in the future

Empire State Building with dome on top.
Empire State Building with skydome and solar panels. AI generation, 2024.

The Empire State Building is very high-tech in the AI-predicted future world.  While the main structure of the building remains intact, it appears to be covered in solar panels.  Or perhaps the walls have been extended outward.  Perhaps both.  The additions to the front are unclear.  Moving upward, the observation deck and spire have been enclosed in a dome, with smaller buildings and structures offering more space for visitors to frolic and take in the sights of the New York skyline. And what a site it is.  In addition to some tall, narrow skyscrapers toward the East river, there appears to be a new skyscraper to the southwest, which looks like a combination of the Chrysler Building at the bottom and Empire State Building at the top, as if the two had bred. 

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