{"id":14164,"date":"2015-11-05T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14164"},"modified":"2015-11-05T07:32:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T12:32:08","slug":"retrotopia-inflows-and-outputs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=14164","title":{"rendered":"Retrotopia: Inflows and Outputs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retrotopia: Inflows and Outputs<\/a><\/h3>\n

This is the eighth installment of an exploration of some of the possible futures discussed on this blog, using the toolkit of narrative fiction. Our narrator visits a city power plant that runs on an unexpected fuel source and a stock market subject to even less familiar rules…<\/p>\n

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By the time Michael Finch and I left the streetcar plant it was pushing eleven. \u201cWhere next?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re about four blocks from one of the municipal power plants,\u201d the intern said. \u201cI called ahead and arranged for a tour\u2014that\u2019ll take about an hour, and should still give us plenty of time for lunch. Ms. Berger said you\u2019d\u00a0\u00a0want a look at our electrical infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

I nodded. \u201c Please. Electricity\u2019s an ongoing problem back home.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt hasn\u2019t always been that easy here, either,\u201d Finch admitted. \u201cWould you like to take a cab, or\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFour blocks? No, that\u2019s walking distance.\u201d From his expression, I gathered that wasn\u2019t always the case with visitors from outside, but he brightened and led the way east toward the Maumee River. North of us I could see bridges arching across the river, and the unfinished dome of the Capitol rising up white above the brown and gray rooftops.<\/p>\n

The power plant was another big brick building like the streetcar factory, and I looked in vain for smokestacks. Finch led me in through the office entrance, a double door in an ornate archway, and introduced us to the receptionist inside. A few moments later we were shown into the office of the plant manager, a stocky brown-skinned man with gray hair who came over to shake my hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cJim Singletary,\u201d he said. \u201cPleased to meet you. I don\u2019t imagine you have anything like our facility over in the Atlantic Republic, so if there\u2019s anything you want to know, just ask, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n

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