Even 20 years ago, the site of the luxury hotel where Naisbitt gave his lecture was a rice paddy, while the glittering focal points of today's Taichung, such as Art Boulevard (where Hotel One is located) were on the fringes of the city. The Fifth Land Consolidation District (LCD) circling off to the west was wilderness, and that goes double for the even more distant Seventh LCD.
不要說 40 年，就算 20 年前，大師演講的金典酒店現址還是一片稻田，今天鎂光燈聚集的台中焦點，例如 Hotel One 所在的美術館園道，當時是市區邊界，向西一圈的五期重劃區空曠荒涼，何況更外圍的七期重劃區根本人煙罕至。