A style implies and entails its own parody.
Has the Google search replaced being old and wise? That is to say, has the search engine replaced or taken the role that elderly people used to play in our lives? The people that we, young people would ask for advice about how things work. Is the role of actual or old person increasingly obsolete? Will there only be young old people going forward?
The medieval cloister, I suspect, was an escape from the busybody world of the village or the small town, or the manorial home, all places where a subject would have been watched—or could believe they were being watched at all times. The cloister was the only private place in Europe, the only place where you could go to be alone, which is why so many people became monks and nuns. It was the only place where an inner life was permissible and possible.
Logically, since we've recreated village life across the globe and destroyed our own privacy—one of the greater innovations of the past few centuries—in the process, we can expect new kinds of cloisters to evolve (which might not be the old kinds of cloisters, but might also look like something new).
In the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, the town watch, the men that patrolled the streets, were actually drawn from the families of burghers. And according to Lewis Mumford, it remains, “a serious question whether the leaving of such functions of protection to the care of the family would be a good thing. Professional police has not weakened the sense of civic responsibility and done away with an effective means of education to patrol one city at night to know its dark alleys under the moon or with no light at all except one's lantern to enjoy the companionship of the watch. Is this not the early practical example of William James moral equivalent of war more useful more humane than any national scheme of military training?”