Is Your City Holding Back Your Career?

Is Your City Holding Back Your Career?: Fifteen years ago, there were glorious predictions about the ?end of geography.? Email and video chats would render cities obsolete, and we?d all be telecommuting from tropical islands (or at least our comfortable suburban homes). That hasn?t happened, of course ? and Jonah Lehrer, author of the new Imagine: How Creativity Works, argued in a recent interview that cities are more important than ever. ?You still need to meet in person,? he says. ?Something intangible happens when people come together in person and share the same zip code. I think we?ve learned the limits of electronic tools.?