"Cities were located near things like rivers, this seems like an unnecessary restriction. Also, we want to figure out how to get goods."
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the most woke techbro spends his life trying to engineer society to eliminate techbros
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plus, please remember although many subjects have thousands of years of history, they didn't have SICP or Scheme, so...
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Sad thing is that it probably isn't ignorance, but overconfidence; they know it isn't new, but others didn't have SOFTWARE

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It's CLEARLY an area of focus that is ready for DISRUPTION, because the existing models obviously do not work very well!

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Just let us at it, and we'll optimise everything! Software! Cloud! No more lines at the DMV! Everything on your smartphone!
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The city of the FUTURE! https://media.giphy.com/media/CXU8axmXoPHUY/giphy.gif …
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They probably read their history, by the way. They're just convinced that they won't make the same mistakes as those before.
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Classical error of focusing on the mistakes that were made without looking at the conditions that led to the mistake.
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Those conditions included old people, and lack of computer. Of course it failed. Duh.
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And before we forget; too much onerous legislation, like zoning, permits, and all the other things that prevent INNOVATION.
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