This another case that seems intuitive to me (I can't read the rest of article) since: * Cities basically serve as a multiplier for economic output, enabling e

This another case that seems intuitive to me (I can't read the rest of article) since: * Cities basically serve as a multiplier for economic output, enabling economies of scale (because of lots of people live near one another). * That increase in population also leads to increased risk from pathogens which can spread with unsanitary conditions or over-crowding and work to reduce urban population (Corona, Queens - one of the harder hit areas of NYC during the pandemic has lower share of 1-2 person households and a higher share of 3-7 person households than the city overall). * It's only been since the 20th century when most of the world's population has lived in cities, so their growth has likely been encouraged by practices and technologies like better sanitation and wastewater treatment, hand-washing, vaccines, and modern epidemiology. What I'm curious about is this: could computing and the internet recreate the broad multiplicative benefit on economic output that cities create? Or will the internet in the 21st century continue to serve only the winners in a winner-take-all market?