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With online collaboration tools really taking off, especially with WebRTC currently on billions of devices, I have this unfounded belief that city centers will
by ruffrey 11y ago
With online collaboration tools really taking off, especially with WebRTC currently on billions of devices, I have this unfounded belief that city centers will become less important over the next decade. There will always be work which is better suited to in-person setups.
Maybe it is more of a hope than a belief - but having a decentralized workforce has implications for cost of living and quality of life that are exciting. With (relatively) low-cost mortgages, home purchasing power increases at a non-linear rate, the more money you make. That is one reason why housing demand in cities can grow faster than wages.
- rm_-rf_slash 11y agoUnfounded all right. Cyclical, more like it. People's tastes change over time. Grandparents liked cities, parents like suburbs, I like cities, and I can't imagine how my kids will feel. Maybe high housing costs will inspire people to live rurally or in exquisite mobile homes driven by computers. Or it will result in a global densification the likes of which we have never truly seen. In Neuromancer, the Sprawl spanned the entire eastern seaboard and yet the only place with real distinction was Zion - the Rastafarian space station far away from the regular bustle. Things are always in flux.
- TimCinel 11y agoI have the same belief, but for a different reason. I think autonomous vehicles will make city centers become less important.
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- wcummings 11y ago> I have this unfounded belief that city centers will become less important over the next decade. People have been saying this for years and the opposite seems to be true.