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5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Is It Possible That the Physical Proximity Provided Cities Will Be Replaced by Networks That Are Virtual?

Is it possible that the physical proximity afforded cities will some day be replaced by networks that are virtual, that are on lines? Well, that's a very interesting question. I i don't think wereplaced. But e and and, so i would say that the it revolution has done what the telephone, and, by the way, things like the steam engine did. It contracted space, shrunk the world.

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