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The future could be worse.

The plants along Route 128 are mostly well designed and nicely set against the New England rocks and trees.

They can even be rather grand, like Edward Land's monument to the astonishing success of Polaroid.

But they deny the values of the city -- the crowded, competitive, tolerant city, the `` melting pot '' which gave off so many of the most admirable American qualities.

They are segregated businesses, combining again on one site the factory and the office, drawing their work force from segregated communities.

It is interesting to note how many of the plants on Massachusetts' Route 128 draw most of their income either from the government in non-competitive cost-plus arrangements, or from the exploitation of patents which grant at least a partial monopoly.