How Hyperconnected Cities Are Taking Over the World

Connected people always existed. Maybe they connect nowadays more than they did before (but there is a biological limit to that, nevertheless), maybe they connect over greater distances than they did before given the technological means, but they were and are a minority (even if a loud one). The bulk of the populace are not like that. The bulk of the populace connect and live in a physically delimited place. Yes, you give them cars and make it easier with other forms of transportation, enlarging those limits, but that only produce results when it couples with an internal drive like a desire to travel, which again has its limits. Place proximity still holds a great weight in shaping human relations on a very broad level and that is a fact given by our human nature. "Geography is destiny" is here to stay, and so are all the local things that affect most of us.

I feel like this is at least the third article that's showed up here recently making the claim that "cities are more important than countries for economic development" with no real argument behind it.

"global strategist and world traveler" - that so totally qualifies him to bloviate!

They must be looking for a replacement for Thomas Friedman. Needs more incomprehensible metaphors, you can't just repeat yourself into credibility.

looking at the pictorial map representative and suggestive of "hyperconnected cities" looks rather like trade routes.. which of course have been around for milenia