Back in 2004, I made an entry on an interview then TCG President Ben Cameron gave on Smart City. In the interview, he talks about a book in which the “the authors noted that historically when there is war, technological change and a shift in rural-urban demographics (Civil War, Depression-WW II, etc) the tendency for the American people is to alter the social compact.”
Given the economic upheaval these days, there seems a possibility of another shift so revisiting the entry seemed in order