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Cities are becoming increasingly irrelevant as information workforces can operate from anywhere. Fast infrastructure means people in rural areas have most of the advantages of cities with few of the disadvantages.

Cities have enormous disadvantages as political structures, because they naturally lend themselves to central control and planning by a political elite. Exactly right!

I made the same points about 2 -3 months ago. Cities are outdated infrastructures, and were only necessary in the past before the advent of the automobile and planes and TV and radio and the internet. 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.

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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.