The United City-States Of America, Mapped - An Experiment In Redividing The Country

Medium ^ | 13MAR19 | Nolan Gray via Medium.com

[PAR35]

A regurgitation of regional government.

[captain_dave]

The major downside of cities is they create dependency.

[foreverfree]

Bump

[cradle of freedom]

Bingo!

[tbw2]

D. M. Wozniak’s book “The Perihelion” looks at an America that had a divorce between the blue core cities and “red lands”, the conservative suburbs and rural areas.
The cultural divide was so bad that we avoided a civil war by letting the cities set up walls that control who gets in and out, while the country itself has walls to control foreign immigration.
Want into a blue core city? You must have permission and an implant. Want to leave the city? Anytime, but it will then be life by red land rules. The cities then rely on a network of trains, conventional flights and cargo drones to carry stuff and people, mostly flying over “the red lands”.
It was that or else have another civil war. Now the blue cores have abortion any time, marriage is heavily taxed, and so are children. Go to the red lands, guns are legal, abortion illegal, and marriage is the norm.
I think this author is mistaking service centers like hospitals with CULTURAL hubs.

[Nifster]

Just no

[x]

We can do virtually anything remotely that in the past required that people gather together in small or larger communities in order to get things done.

I don't know. Sometimes the ability for face-to-face contact gives people the edge, both in business and in life. A world where one is dependent upon devices for contact with the people one has to work with and deal with may not function as well as one where personal contact is possible, and we don't yet know all the psychological consequences.

[adorno]

Sometimes the ability for face-to-face contact gives people the edge, both in business and in life.

Undeniable. But, the vast majority of negotiations don't need to be on a face-to-face basis. Most business can be conducted remotely, and people are actually doing that through the internet, and that will increase.

[Blue Collar Christian]

Looks like a nifty way to take away any voice left for the folks outside of the city.

[reed13k]

bump for later