Where It's At

"When President Lincoln was shot, the word was communicated by telegraph to most parts of the United States, but because we had no links to England, it was five days before London heard of the event. When President Reagan was shot, journalist Henry Fairlie, working at his typewriter within a block of the shooting, got word of it by telephone from his editor at the Spectator in London, who had seen a rerun of the assassination attempt on television shortly after it occurred."

John Naisbitt, Megatrends.

In the Industrial Age, the basis of production was location dependent.
Workers travelled to where the work was at.
'Come to me', said the factory to the worker.
'Come to me', said the city to the factory.
Architecture stayed put, built on a solid foundation.
Fixed in place, inside and out.

In the Information Age, location is independent of the basis of production.
What is work?
Where is work?
Learning a living in your own head.
Have laptop will travel.
Walking talking buildings.
Mobile phones, mobile homes.
Plug-in homes, plug on homes.
A permanent tent city.
Blow-up dolls, blow-up houses.
Architecture on the move.
Transportable, demountable, disposable.
You name it and create a new architecture.
A caravan of possibility.
A suitcase full of opportunities.
Where it's at is what you're wearing out.


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