The Week In: Cartography Discovery -- Supercities of the Future...NOW!

In the vast majority of movies where the world is wrought with overpopulation and technology to the extreme, shots from space always show the earth covered in gigantic supercities that span miles and miles. The future is closer than it appears. While we may not have hoverboards or chips implanted into our bodies (well, not all of us at least), our metropoli may be taking steps to dominate the landscapes. Eat it, nature.