A 1950s Science Fiction Book About Remote Work
City by Clifford Simak.
The novel — a connected set of short stories — imagines a future where people don’t live in cities anymore because they don’t have to live by where they work, and people like the space in the country. The cities decay, of course, into lawless places.
Oh, there’s also a doctor trying to do telemedicine.
The book was published in 1952.
The world disintegrated without the city, which had been a building block for civilization.
But there’s a happy ending.
In the end, after Man disappears from history, the Dogs inherit the Earth. They make adorable little stewards of creation.
The whole book’s like that. You read a philosophical and historical discussion from the perspective of the Dogs. They think the city is impossible.
Most authorities in economics and sociology regard such an organization as a city an impossible structure, not only from the economic standpoint, but from the sociological and psychological as well. No creature of the highly nervous structure necessary to develop a culture, they point out, would be able to survive within such restricted limits. The result, if it were tried, these authorities say, would lead to mass neuroticism which in a short period of time would destroy the very culture which had built the city.
But the funniest part is that all the great Doggist philosophers are called “Fido”, “Bones”, etc.
Zach
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