I wonder if the advent of more creative class professionals will harken a return to a more intermediate technology based society, one that would likely require less energy and less governance in exchange for greater plenitude shared among many.
I am thinking that once things get going with Left Brain, I may see if I can run the company at some point for an entire year, hiking the Continental Divide, or some major trail. Or traveling the world.
I can think of no problem right now that couldn't be resolved over the internet via video chat.
Having the ability to create in a more mobile fashion, shouldn't the traders and merchants of today be better able to find one another?
The captains of major corporate ventures become the transporters rather than distributors of goods, realty becomes a small market again, and people are able to live and work closer to denser population centers, but more clustered into manageable communities.
I am still fascinated by the idea of smaller faster transportation systems, built on the idea that we maintain the level of freedom permitted by the individual passenger vehicle - allowing that person to go wherever they want to go - but more efficiently. Highways would be replaced by multilane tracks, where people could determine their own risk and speed levels, number of passengers, payload, etc... and then buy what they want or need right there, rather than "owning" a vehicle. They would be buying transportation on a per need basis, paying a premium for going outside an flexible public transportation system.
Vehicles could also be owned across a spectrum, as long as they conformed to some basic chassis, allowing a tremendous amount of flexibility for the marketplace to operate as well.