Why The City Will Survive The Age Of Pandemics And Remote Work
A new book explains why "the age of urban miracles" is far from over.
Bad predictions are an occupational hazard for forecasters. And, on this front, the late futurist Alvin Toffler was not immune. Human cloning by the 1980s? Nope. Toffler was a renowned writer who accurately described many forces that would reshape the world. But along with his many good predictions, there were many bad ones. And what only a few years ago looked like another one of his duds — that remote work would kill the office and lead to urban decline — may now seem prophetic.
In his 1980 book , Toffler argued that mankind was on the verge of a third wave of change that would wash away the existing industrial order and send many
