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Aug 31, 2006

Speculator: a moving story

Getting uptight downtown, as a high-tech economy proves worryingly inflexible

Moving home is one of life’s most traumatic experiences, but it can also be educational – for the survivors, at least. As philosopher Bertrand Russell noted, we put a lower value on those who merely move physical mass from one place to another than we do on those who order others to do so. In the ‘knowledge economy’, we’re told, physical labor and even most forms of clerical work are obsolescent – or at least outsourced offshore. Invest in technology! But

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