In a digital world, has the role of cultural buildings really changed? | Thinkpiece | Architectural Review
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It is possible that the two things that most define our age – increasing urbanisation and the development of digital communications technology – have very little to do with each other
It is the job of the futurist to make bold predictions which often turn out to be wrong. So it is perhaps unfair to join in the chorus pointing out the miscalculation that George Gilder made when he suggested in the early 1990s that the rise of the internet would lead to an end not just to cities but to conventional human geography. However, when it comes to Gilder, who also wrote widely on the social inferiority of women and the superiority of Christian societies to secular ones, we shall just have to make an exception. Cities have grown since he made his prediction – showing no sign of abating – and cultural buildings such as art galleries and museums have had a key role in this that questions their very purpose as public institutions.
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