Technopolis:


Once upon a time the promise of a whole new world opened up — the white-hot technological revolution — driven by rapid innovations in electronics and related technologies, and great expectations. New companies, industries and jobs were created, many old ones changed, and some perished.

In the cities new tall towers of glass reaching to the sky, reflecting the sun, replaced the old smokestacks. Around them lay the jumble of tired, dull and desolate buildings of previous industries and technologies. Gradually the gleaming, bright and colorful establishments of the newcomers interspersed in the decaying heritage. Eventually, inexorably, the serried ranks of conforming rows of identical buildings of the brave new world colonized green fields, while the individualistic faded grandeur of the old was forgotten and often swept away.

The regimented blocks of industrial parks and warehouses, offices and apartments, little boxes in the ‘burbs, served by their straight silver and golden highways, relentlessly marched on to create Technopolis.

This brave new technopolis is recreated using the artifacts of the time.