With the advent of 5G and telecommunications, cities are becoming obsolete. Wall street can become a computer bank somewhere in Florida or Texas, as an example.
“With the advent of 5G and telecommunications, cities are becoming obsolete.”
Cities will always be around, hookers need sidewalks to survive./sarc
The book, Your Next 50 Years, written around 1980, actually predicted this. He called the new mini-cities “micropolis”. And he predicted the cell phone as well.
WFH is here to stay. It changes everything. It just never dawned on me that something like this stupid lockdown would be what drove it over the line into critical mass.
Office space in the cities will be converted to condos. Most of it will, anyway. We’re not going back.
I have always wondered why mass transportation was so important when computers enable us to “meet’ via video for business or personal reasons. Immigration is another phenomenon that can be restricted, as some jobs can be done via computer.
You still want to go to Broadway shows in NYC. But if Governor Cuomo shuts down Broadway, what makes NYC special is no longer there. Then it’s no longer worth the high cost of living because you can’t enjoy all what the city has to offer you anymore.