Perhaps the box and the screen are our future. After all, the recently completed developments on Friedrichstrasse, that major commercial artery crossing Unter den Linden, look frighteningly similar to their former computer simulations, with one major difference: what appeared airy, sometimes even elegant, and generously spacious in the simulations now looks oppressively monumental, massive, and forbidding, especially when experienced under the leaden Berlin skies in midwinter. Call it the revenge of the real.