Is Placelessness the Cost of American Freedom?
If We Want to Nurture a Sense of Place in This Country, It Might Help to Know Why We Lost It To Begin With
Forty-four years ago—well before the advent of the contemporary mobile phone, Wi-Fi, and social media technology—fabled futurist Alvin Toffler predicted a “historic decline in the significance of place to human life.” He was right, of course. And no country has proven him more right than the United States.