"The price of building the Ideal Progressive City of the Future was years of living in the Chaotic Inconvenient Construction Site of the Now."
-SM Stirling, Daggers In Darkness (Eric Flint's Ring of Fire, 2021), CHAPTER THREE, p. 70.
Is that a comment on human life in general?
In my youth, there were two kinds of sf futures: future cities and spaceships or post-catastrophe survival. Which kind are we heading for?
2 comments:
The Panama Pacific Exposition in 1915 was pretty much the early 20th century's ideal Platonic concept of a city -- I like it myself needless to say. From the pictures, it was extremely impressive!
Just the sort of thing to catch Teddy Roosevelt's imagination.
As for price, there's a price for everything, and big things cost highly, and not only in money.
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