Soulless Cycles

The Soulless City

Theodore Dalrymple | City Journal | 30th June 2025 | U

Tirade against Britain’s Milton Keynes. The city’s “tidy-minded planners clearly detested the street”, and favoured instead a grid system with wide, featureless roads and office blocks made of plate glass. Modernists argue that aesthetic considerations are less important than good function. “Why beauty in the twenty-first century should be incompatible with proper ventilation is not immediately clear” (3,200 words)

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Processing Cycles

Ernie Smith | Tedium | 29th June 2025

Computing is expected to outpace heating, ventilation and air-conditioning as the biggest energy suck. This is just from cloud computing and office server rooms, without taking AI into account. All this energy consumed will increase heat, which will increase the need for cooling — a vicious cycle. The silver lining might lie in better technology: lighting consumes significantly less power since the advent of LEDs (1,600 words)