ANALOG: Let’s Build a More Human World
The Next Big Idea
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Cities Are a Chaos Machine, Right?
David Frum's new book, "Cities," is about the contrast between digital and analog worlds. He says cities are often seen as technologically sophisticated places but they're really chaos machines that are inherently analog. The city of the future isn't Saudi Arabia or Muhammad bin Salman building a city in the desert; it's anyone who wants to live there. But when technology seeks to replace its problems with more advanced ones like sewage treatment systems he asks: What do we want?
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