December 9, 2011
The Future And Its Enemies
adminby Virginia Postrel The Future, argues Virginia Postrel, is not static. It’s not discovered, it’s created. The Clinton Administration sought to capture the public imagination about the future by alluding to the grand engineering projects of the past. “Bridge to the Future.” “Information Superhighway.” “Stairway to Heaven.” (Okay, maybe not the last one.) Postrel insists that these are exactly the wrong allusions. Stairways, if they’re built at all, should act like the ones at Hogwarts, although she’d probably claim that the castle itself was too static. They also suggest another […]