The author has no idea why cities formed. They were close to the hub of business, they offered more opportunity than the farm and they had jobs. Cities are failing because the rivers and coasts are no longer the hub of trade and they are run badly, chasing away business and jobs. Chicago, LA and New York are becoming cesspits as business and jobs flee. Move more people to the city so we can all live crowded in poverty while the Al Gores and Global-warmists live on their massive country estates and fly their private jets hither-thither and yon? No thank you.
Increasingly, smart people can make a living far from the murder capitals where if you leave your car outside somebody will break into it for a box of tissues.
The frightening thing here is the technology is within reach that will allow a person rich enough to create and spread a contagion that will “make the world a better place.” Publishing the human genome was a mistake.
The frightening thing here is the technology is within reach that will allow a person rich enough to create and spread a contagion that will “make the world a better place.” Publishing the human genome was a mistake.
One of Tom Clancy’s novels deals with this idea.
Correct. And would you be surprised by this science fiction writers CV?
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from his wiki bio:
....In 1982 Robinson earned a Ph.D. in English from the UC San Diego.[4]
His initial Ph.D. advisor was literary critic and Marxist scholar, Fredric Jameson,[6] who told Robinson to read works by Philip K. Dick. Jameson described Dick to Robinson as “the greatest living American writer.”[4]
Robinson’s doctoral thesis, The Novels of Philip K. Dick, was published in 1984 and a hardcover version was published by UMI Research Press.
In 2008, Time Magazine named Robinson a “Hero of the Environment” for his optimistic focus on the future.
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.... so no surprise that an English major has become another Bill Nye Science Guy by starting out as a fiction peddler devolving into a anthropogenic global warming Cassandra with the usual “If only....” we, meaning forward right thinking elites, can save the world from the less enlightened. Nothing new here, about a hundred years ago H.G. Wells flogged the original “scientists and engineers know best and ought to govern the world” tripe. His “Shape of Things to Come” described just that.
The author has no idea why cities formed. They were close to the hub of business,
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Usually at a sea port or navigable river.