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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