Are We There Yet? · Section 12

Where We’re Going, We’ll Still Need Them

The road itself, taken seriously: Rome's, whose shape is still visible in Europe's map, and the Silk Road, which was never a road. Then what engineers want next — surfaces that generate power, charge cars, heal their own cracks — and what people actually do, which is walk across the grass in a line no planner drew. Then literature: Du Fu, Frost's two paths, Yeats sailing away, Route 66.

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