Re:The car is not the future: On the myth of motorized freedom
by nradov on Monday September 01, 2025 @02:01PM
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You only have everything you need for work in such a city if your "work" is limited to small offices, restaurants, and retail shops. So you're excluding everything related to manufacturing, agriculture, resource extraction, logistics, military, etc. You know, all of that stuff that keeps modern industrial civilization operating and allows quaint medieval towns to continue existing at all. If you like where you live that's great, but it's hardly ideal and certainly not scalable.
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Re:The car is not the future: On the myth of motorized freedom
by griffzhowl on Monday September 01, 2025 @02:34PM
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> all of that stuff that keeps modern industrial civilization operating and allows quaint medieval towns to continue existing at all
That doesn't make sense to me. Medieval towns existed for centuries before industrial civilization and without it we might see a drastic increase in medieval style living...
In any case the poster is talking about their own ideal future scenario, maybe leaving out the details like the robots working in underground manufacturing facilities or fusion-powered hydroponic vertical farms etc.
Re:The car is not the future: On the myth of motorized freedom
by mojuba on Monday September 01, 2025 @02:39PM
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> if your "work" is limited to small offices, restaurants, and retail shops.
...or just any kind of remote work. Still limited, not available to everyone obviously but can't be omitted.