Stalin approves. They even could build something like a dam or a channel before their bodies will be laid in huge pile.

Inception is inspired by 'Ubik' (Philip K. Dick) the open end also comes from there

The only problem is that you can't stay in this position more than couple of minutes

Paris RER train system changes the city and its suburbs so much.

Media facades are very annoying, though sometimes funny, a good thing there is not many of them so far

Good article, here is map from wikipedia

Typical third world attitude to law, the laws are so cruel that a lot of people ignore them as long as possible.

YES, absolutely, some of this species were made extinct by humans.

Not much surprise, companies have only money to motivate their executives, sometimes it is not enough, may be they should assure that CEO has large enough part of company to motivate him against its fail

That is very good numbers

In some states (Austria for example) car video-cams are forbidden, no such videos possible

I also don't think we'll have long-term space colonies by 2064.

There are proposed death penalty for high hills and cosmetics, and women are in public usage unless they give a berth, later was also proposed in Russia in 1918. Some everyday life aspects (like you can't sleep in the same bedroom) are almost repeated in Anathem by Neal Stephenson, though they are common for utopias.