The Third Law isn’t nearly as universal as the first two, but it does suggest some possibilities. One thinks, for example, of the magnificent railroad stations that were built as late as the 1930s in far-flung American cities like Buffalo and Cincinnati, just as rail was, you’d think predictably, about to give way to the car and the plane. Or think of the imperial architecture of Britain, in London and New Delhi, as the Empire began to weaken in the early years of the 20th century.
Or to come closer to the present, it’s interesting to someone who, like me, dabbles in journalism to notice that at least three monuments to that profession have recently arisen in the U.S., at the very moment when we’re all abuzz with predictions of the forthcoming demise of the newspaper and the radical reconstruction of other forms of journalism.
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