Daily Blog: Elsewhere, USA Part II

The Forbes, February 16, 2009 issue reports on Dalton Conley’s new book, Elsewhere, USA, as foreseeing a new type of town:

"Expect 'total institution' corporate towns, which will look something like a cross between the employee-coddling Google-plex in Mountain View, California and the 19th-century mining town where the company provided the grocery store, the school and even the church."

The extent to which this prediction is accurate remains to be seen. But one thing is certain and has been true for quite some time: The quality of caring that exists on the part of a city for the companies that locate there is extremely important.

Technology continues to change the degree of freedom of workers to make decisions about how, when and where they will work. As a result the option to live or locate “Elsewhere” is an increasing possibility.

Read further about Elsewhere, USA at http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/0216/022.html