Today it's internet--in the past it was cars, telephones, even railways for a time...
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Replying to @380kmh
...but there's always a technology that rural folk hope will finally render cities obsolete. I imagine agriculture was the first of these.
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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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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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Another thing to consider - did not the Industrial Revolution begin in the less developed and poorer North of England?
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No, that's where industrial tech, *once developed,* was applied at large scales
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sort of like highland clearances--new breeds of sheep were raised in southern cities, then pastured at large scales up north
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