Just wanted to say that if centers (like hyperscaler HQ) progress exponentially, then even the cities of today are like Sudan - warming lunch on open fire, 5 minutes by tram from sci-fi-like hyperintelligencies running and exploiting the world with the world even hardly being aware of the fact, like a shepherd at the edge of British colony.
This seems to be a cultural thing as well - I heard a story of early Bosch engineers arriving to USA to do research why the german dishwashers failed so much often there, and finding out, to their horror, that while Europeans were 2-3 on this scale, Americans were more often 4-5. They then had to redesign the dishwasher to be able to deal with much more food remains.
Just wanted to say that if centers (like hyperscaler HQ) progress exponentially, then even the cities of today are like Sudan - warming lunch on open fire, 5 minutes by tram from sci-fi-like hyperintelligencies running and exploiting the world with the world even hardly being aware of the fact, like a shepherd at the edge of British colony.