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In ten years, we'll be seeing the same articles about the sprawling hi-rises in downtown areas, as more industry realizes how much cheaper remote work can be.
by bbarn 11y ago
In ten years, we'll be seeing the same articles about the sprawling hi-rises in downtown areas, as more industry realizes how much cheaper remote work can be.
There are certainly jobs that won't work remotely, but there's not a lot of manufacturing and hands-on work going on in high rises.
- loudmax 11y agoIf we're going to project out into the future, then driverless cars promise to be a game changer. Granted, we're talking twenty or thirty years out rather than ten years. Driverless cars can facilitate more single family detached houses without the sprawling roads and parking lots. With any transformative technology, it's hard to predict how things will work out, but driverless cars could, ironically lead to more walking.
- tim333 11y agoThere doesn't seem much of a trend in that direction. Most city office jobs could be done remotely but there are advantages to being central. You can meet people, go to conferences, chat over coffee and the like. It's kind of ironic in a way - you might have thought being able to work form a laptop would lead to people spreading out but it seems to lead more to people thinking they may as well bring the laptop to a cafe or office in central SF, London, NYC or the like.