Last week, Toby Shorin published some fascinating predictions about how this pandemic will affect culture and technology, and he let me contribute some thoughts about what will happen to cities and physical space. At this point, making predictions about any stage of the future feels like a fool’s errand if accuracy is the goal, but I’ve always believed that these exercises are valuable for reasons entirely independent of whether they turn out to be correct. Thinking about the future, at its best, is really just another way to process the present, and there’s never been a better time to do
#121: Don't Go Back to Rockville
#121: Don't Go Back to Rockville
#121: Don't Go Back to Rockville
Last week, Toby Shorin published some fascinating predictions about how this pandemic will affect culture and technology, and he let me contribute some thoughts about what will happen to cities and physical space. At this point, making predictions about any stage of the future feels like a fool’s errand if accuracy is the goal, but I’ve always believed that these exercises are valuable for reasons entirely independent of whether they turn out to be correct. Thinking about the future, at its best, is really just another way to process the present, and there’s never been a better time to do