Re:Approaching Peak Housing Dysfunction in California
by Kalium on Thursday July 25, 2019 @07:05PM
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I think that until you're able to emulate meatspace in every aspect with VR, you cannot replace face-to-face.
Economic clusters aren't just valuable for people being in the same office. They produce value because people and ideas meet in bars and restaurants and coffee shops and backyards. All of this is stuff you'd need to replace to "disaggregate the knowledge economy".
This is not something you can accomplish with GitHub and teleconferencing.
Until we can smoothly emulate meatspace with VR, I don't think you can replace face-to-face interaction. If you can't do that, then people will still want to be close to jobs and similar businesses, so they'll continue to urbanize in a natural distribution.
And even if you had your new VR tech with enough bandwidth to run it nicely, you'd still need to be able to provide it to your offworld coloni--I mean rural exclaves.