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Article #3083Re: Free Excerpt of Knoke's Visionary New Book on 21st Century Economic, Political and Social Structures (BOLD NEW WORLD)
From: Gary G. Nelson
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 00:00
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"Jennifer B. Goodrich" <us026829@interramp.com> wrote: >Rapid advances in the communications and transportation technologies will >soon have a dramatic effect on the way we do business, invest, organize >our nations, shop, socialize, and care for the environment. Bill Knoke, >in his new book BOLD NEW WORLD: THE ESSENTIAL ROAD MAP TO THE >TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, calls this revolution the "Age of Everything - >Everywhere". He sees us now creating a "Fourth Dimension," where >traditional economic, political, and social structures no longer apply, >to be replaced by a "Placeless Society." > I appreciate the attached offer of a free excerpt and shall read it with interest. As for coming to a placeless society--hogwash. We have used mobility and communications to seek better places. Until we completely replace reality with virtual reality (which is, of course impossible when you have to survive physically) we will be embedded in spatial place. the fact that we can access them more easily will only put a premium on the quality of place we choose to spend our time in.
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