Today it's internet--in the past it was cars, telephones, even railways for a time...
Every time, it plays out the same way. The technology is invented in a city (of course) and is gradually adopted by more rural places...
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...where it has a real, often positive impact, making rural life easier--but not so easy that cities become obsolete...
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...for indeed, by the time the last tech has really caught on in the boonies, cities are already inventing the next one.
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This will pretty much always be the case, but I think the rate of adoption will continue to increase as well.
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The rate of adoption increases but the rate of invention increases faster--the latter makes the former possible
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This is also true. This is why I hope Elon Musk is successful w/solar power plans. Gives small communities energy independence.
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not gonna happen, calling it now the energy independence part, that is--I imagine Musk will pull something off re: solar power
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Well, I'm optimistic about the electricity part. Oil of course will be tougher but slowly need for that will decrease over time.
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Take Greco-Roman civ. - in this case cities were centers of invention, yes, but in scale they were more like small towns of today
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cities are *always* the centers of invention, but because invention never stops, cities are larger in every era
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the cities where agriculture was developed probably had populations of just a few thousand
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once in a while you get a groundbreaking development that makes far larger cities possible, which introduces new problems...
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...leading, in turn, to new developments; repeat. Agriculture was one, plumbing another, electricity, medicine, etc
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All such technologies are invented to overcome practical problems associated with large concentrations of people...
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...and once the problems of a certain concentration are solved, the concentration increases.
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not sure it's historically accurate to say that all tech. was invented in cities, though most probably was; worth further inquiry...
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