🚀 go-pugleaf

John Higdon wrote:
> >> What about that vast number of people who don't live in urban areas? You
> >> know, small numbers of people who need to travel large distances to diverse
> >> destinations.
> >
> > They move.
> 
> I see. We will have a nation where NO ONE lives anywhere but in an urban
> people-kennel. Thousands and thousands of square miles without either a
> person or structure (things have to be moved as well as people by
> transportation methods, you know) in sight.

Not necessarily no people, just less people.  There would still likely
be farmland, and farmers.  Just not sprawling residential communitites.

> There be automated devices to
> replace and remove each person to and from his cell. At night will there be
> wires connected to recover electrical energy, Matrix-style.

Good laugh.

Seriously, this is really nothing new.  During the industrial
revolution, massive populations migrated from the farms to the factories
(cities).  The advent of automobiles allowed some spreading of the
population to areas surrounding the cities (suburbs).  Changes in
technology causes shifts in population densities.  If energy becomes
more expensive, polulations will shift yet again.