Reviewing The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov

I first read The Caves of Steel over ten years ago. What always stuck with me was the depiction of New York as a capital-c City: an enclosed system stretching from Long Island to Trenton. Linking it all together is the Expressway, an interlocking set of moving conveyors which let you accellerate from stationary to 60 miles per hour without any vehicles or traffic. That specific innovation featured…