A dictionary of Marshall McLuhan’s quotations

The circuited city of the future will not be the huge hunk of concentrated real estate created by the railway. It will take on a totally new meaning under conditions of very rapid movement. It will be an information megalopolis. What remains of the configuration of former "cities" will be very much like World's Fairs—places in which to show off new technology, not places of work or residence. They will be preserved, museum like, as living monuments to the railway era. If we were to dispose of the city now, future societies would reconstruct them, like so-many Williamsburgs.
The Medium Is the Massage (1967), p 72
Year: 1967
Chapters: Future | Predictions
↪ Also at #2401, #4820
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