Designit » urban living http://blog.designit.com Designit thinks aloud Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:49:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Is Las Vegas the future? http://blog.designit.com/2008/03/14/is-las-vegas-the-future/ http://blog.designit.com/2008/03/14/is-las-vegas-the-future/#comments Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:01:41 +0000 David Fellah http://designit.com/blog/2008/03/14/is-las-vegas-the-future/ lv.jpg

Flew over Las Vegas a few months ago (landed there too) and got a shock as you do sometimes seeing a city from above. This picture shows just a tiny part of the area of the city, where two million people live. Looks like a city made by a harvesting machine – and 95% of inhabitants work in service or entertainment (not a lot of production going on there).

This city didn’t really exist 60 years ago. There’s a sci-fi feeling to it, maybe because we know that more and more people move to the cities to work in service or entertainment, as manual labour is taken over by machines.

It might well be a picture of our future seen from above…(and with global warming, maybe even the weather in northern Europe would become more like Las Vegas – one can hope:-)

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