Clearly Lore has gone to the Aspen Ideas festival at least once, and at some point maybe, I don’t know, a curator he hired to fill his shelves with aesthetically pleasing old books accidentally included some economic theory (if only he had found Charles Fourier before he got to the George!), and now he has notions.Īs anyone who has an adult relative who rules over their basement miniature train set with an iron fist, or who has spent any time on social media listening to 22-year-old leftists talk about what life will be like after “the revolution”, knows, a lot of people have ideas about the way cities, countries and societies should work. No longer content to just sneer down at us from their private jets, they take over our homes, our towns, our society. Yes, it probably will have a very shiny public transportation system, but it seems futuristic more in the sense that, as the world deteriorates, the ultra-rich seem increasingly interested in telling the rest of us how to live. Telosa certainly is a city of the future, but not in, like, a great way. These are ideas that have remained in the abstract or only attempted on a small scale now they will have a whole American metropolis to experiment with, brought to life by the creative ambitions of one very rich man. The plan combines ideas about urban farming (the “beacon” tower of the project will house aeroponic farms) and quality of life (a city where everyone can live and work and play within a 15-minute commute) alongside new green technologies and a model of land ownership proposed, but never executed, by the 19th-century economist Henry George.
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