I agree with utopian thinking really doesn’t work. For people to stay in a city, they need to have meaning in their life. That meaning is provided through multi

I agree with utopian thinking really doesn’t work. For people to stay in a city, they need to have meaning in their life. That meaning is provided through multiple ways, a nice impactful job, good schools and universities, family housing, walkable/bikeable roads to shops and restaurants. In a way, you are 100% correct, most desirable cities will always be most human happiness/friendliness focused cities. Tech will merely be a means to that end. Tech is always a means to an end. People don’t want fancy self driving cars with a 100 sensors, they just want to get from point A to point B quickly and comfortably. A city with well networked subway system beats a city full of self driving cars stuck in a traffic jam. It’s so easy to fall in the trap of loving solution rather than the loving the problem.