But by the end of that century gigantic purpose-built offices were starting to appear, which were about something new - power.
Could it be a gigantic, all-purpose placebo?
The only purpose of this gigantic upheaval is to bring the market into virtually every aspect of the NHS.
In a sense, the purpose of these gigantic visions is to anaesthetise the pain of being alive and not understanding.
The technology industry, in particular, is fond of creating structures where the management is free to ignore the company's owners: the founders of Google and Facebook have accessed the market for the purpose of a gigantic payday but retain control of their companies.
PHYSICISTS at Brookhaven National Laboratory worked for 11 years and spent 600 million taxpayer dollars to build a gigantic machine for the sole purpose of smashing subatomic particles with such tremendous force as to recreate, for an instant, a primordial state of matter believed to have existed in the moments after the Big Bang.
Gladstone, admired orator and one of our greatest prime ministers, asserted that income tax was an "engine of gigantic power for great national purposes".
The techniques for doing that are pretty crazy; some will hire helicopters to hover just above their trees, blasting the warm air downwards, and others have gigantic stationary fans for the same purpose.
Maybe it's because of our obsession with gigantic, gas-guzzling SUVs we never use for their intended purpose.
Another common cry, which garnered much praise despite having little purpose, was, loosely: "The people/united/are a gigantic bunch of dudes" — though the real version included a rowdy profanity.
Spira also features various animal species and fictional species, such as the gigantic shoopuf and the chocobo that are used primarily for transport purposes.
