" In the period we are talking about, people will become very much more mobile. We shall all own motor cars." A new era may well be a short era.

In the end, the archive is the rest home for official dreams. Now we might look at modernism/ coldwar/ fear of youth as contamination fantasy. How we will straighten things out for good in an uncomplicated society starting from scratch, where planners and functionaries work tirelessly for the common good.

Perhaps the spirit of optimism can be re-applied to new contexts where an impulse towards a better life is democratically instituted.