Ghost Suburbs of the 21st Century

I'm not normally a Daily Torygraph reader, but this article, stumbled on in Dark Roasted Blend, caught my eye. At last, the 21st Century is becoming more science fiction-like. Unfortunately, it's less Arthur C Clarke and more J G Ballard, as, neutron bomb-like, the fallout from the Great Crash of the noughties leaves miles of empty new ghost suburbs in its wake:

The only sounds were the hum of air conditioning units cooling immaculately-furnished show homes where flat screen televisions played to vacant rooms and piped music emanating eerily from empty balconies.

It's only a matter of time before the deserted high-end complexes are colonized by the survivors of suburbia - desperate, alienated, thrill-seeking, cannibalistic, techno-fetishists, staging car crashes in the deserted streets and doing unspeakable things to one another on the immaculately-tended lawns.