PublishedAllen Lane, April 2011 |
ISBN9781846141003 |
FormatSoftcover, 480 pages |
Dimensions21.6cm × 13.5cm × 3.3cm |
Even in a hyperconnected, instant world, where everything seems to be about applications for mobile devices, mobility itself - of "stuff" and of people - is the key to the economic viability of places. While there is plenty of well-supported number-crunching and research, it is the jet-lagged, drop-jawed wonder of the narration that carries the reader through the book.
From the searing desert of Dubai and its slave-labor towers in the sand, to the spinning-plates action of the packaging raceways at the UPS Worldport in Louisville, we get the sense that we are taking a tour of modern earthly wonders that we have only begun to comprehend. And yet, the effort to do so is both commendable and enjoyable.
