Carbon Footprint
January 11th, 2009
I have a hypothesis. The Web makes NYC life vastly more convenient, so real estate here will not dip so badly as that in the rest of the (car-oriented) USA, even though the market is full of 800k shoebox apartments. It is rapidly improving quality of life by densely packing annotations in a relatively small area. It is truly amazing to walk out of your door having read 53 annotations on the coffee shop, and know there are lots on every other establishment in the area. An area which would probably hold a cul-de-sac or two in your average suburb. I hope I never take it for granted–it’s village gossip with tons of bandwidth.
So, not only is Google saving trips to the library, it’s making more energy-efficient population densities an attractive way to live.