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Viewed as a network, the UrbanNet will start shifting from big "cloud datacenter" metros to "network edge fat client" small cities of < 0.25m. Logistics will rewire from hub-spoke to p2p.
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Supply chains will start shifting to intermediates that can be assembled last mile. This is a swing that has had complex cycles before, due to railroads, refrigerated rail cars/trucks, containerization, Chinafication etc. Currently it's finished consumer goods, b2b intermediates.
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So it won't just be hipsters making their own bread. We're making our own alcohol wipes from... 70% alcohol and tissues. If you try this btw, regular 80 proof alcohol won't do. You need everclear or something. People are posting recipes (mostly bad) for home-made hand sanitizer.
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In general, small scale network-edge manufacturing lacks efficiencies of scale, and is harder to automate, but is more agile/flexible ("fat"). There will be demand for high-skill staffed job shops for "semi-homemade" things. Kinda like old-school compounding pharmacies.
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Public health administration will be heavily deregulated and we'll move from a mainframe to PC era of "personal health management" with a lot more of the care and risk management happening at the level of non-professionals. Amateurization in all its good+bad embodiments.
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Political ideologies will swing towards greater openness to euthanasia and quality-of-life utilitarianism. Managing societies to acknowledge not just capacity for survival/adaptive fit, but desire and quality of the survival. Opt-in administrative darwinism basically.
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Societal futures will start to resemble Asimov's Spacer civilization in allegorical form. A longevity/self-segregation based mansion elite with low evolutionary viability, high QoL + a declining life-span/dense living mass population with high evolutionary viability but low QoL
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a significant – maybe 10-20%, maybe more – increase in people discovering that they like working from home, and are more productive. Idk if we'd implement 4 day work week this year or next, but we'd get much closer to it, more and more companies will do it
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people are more productive with 3 day weekends, this is known cnbc.com/2019/11/04/mic
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You are building a tower of speculation on a very weak base. People mostly don't change their minds, regardless of events. You are repeating _The Greening of America_ error, assuming that the things your crowd agree on are the wave of future America.
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