the city to the pedestrian burgess.

     If the motorist is technologically and economically far 
superior to the armored knight, it may be that electric changes 
in technology are about to dismount him and return us to the 
pedestrian scale. “Going to work” may be only a transitory 
phase, like “going shopping.” The grocery interests have long 
foreseen the possibility of shopping by two-way TV, or video-
telephone. William M. Freeman, writing for The New York Times  
Service (Tuesday, October 15, 1963), reports that there will 
certainly be “a decided transition from today’s distribution 
vehicles. . . . Mrs. Customer will be able to tune in on various 
stores. Her credit identification will be picked up automatically 
via television. Items in full and faithful coloring will be viewed. 
Distance will hold no problem, since by the end of the century 
the consumer will be able to make direct television connections