¶ City (2)
Index Entry
City:
"of this early requirement which has now been totally offset by the development of credit devices and newer transportation media. In the future the use of a city for the physical transfer of goods will be silly. Cans and frozen food packs can take food from any place to any other place on Earth. Satellites can gather and transmit information as to the total food supply on Earth and can tell where it’s in surplus and where it is lacking. The redistribution process, logically, would never take it through a city.
"The same holds for the processing of goods, but with an added reason: technology. For most of the technological improvements were and still are a product of the intellectual communication between men that takes place in a city. Thus the tanning of leather took place because of the coincidence of technology, hides, and chemicals. But with the technique mastered, there is no need to haul all that stuff into the crowded city and then move it back out again.
"Thus the city has another purpose: it is there that the intellectual engagement takes place technologically. And since
¶ Citations
- Mergers & Acquisition, Vol 1, No. 4, p.30, Summer’66
