The World Of Tomorrow

Long ago, Walt Disney built EPCOT - his "experimental prototype community of tomorrow". Although it's a relatively expensive place, most of us can afford to go there.

Now Microsoft, Facebook, Apple and others are building similar cities of tomorrow. You can read about some of them here:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-were-razing-our-redmond-campus-to-build-a-mini-city/

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/08/facebooks-campus-offers-employees-fewer-reasons-to-leave-the-office.html

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/10/16/apples-new-campus-is-nearly-finished-and-now-apple-is-building-basketball-courts.html

These new experimental cities are VERY expensive, and it seems like only company employees are welcome there.

In fact, if you look at the existing metro areas surrounding the MS-FB-Apple complexes, they too have become VERY expensive. Company employees can afford to live there, but the common folk cannot ... and those who do live in tents, RVs, campers, and glorified cardboard boxes.

The point here is that the modern techie version of EPCOT is a community for net-state owners, creators, and high-end users. The rest of us useless eaters need not apply.

And THAT is the world Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and their ilk are creating.

Are you happy now?