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Kaj_Sotala comments on Look for the Next Tech Gold Rush? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 23 July 2014 07:05:43AM 1 point [-]

Also, people want to be near their friends, and the easiest way to be close to a lot of people is to live in a big city.

I would actually expect that communications technologies accelerate the urbanization process, since it makes it easier to make geographically distant friends online, and then you become more likely to want to move to where they live.