The hope of being able to maintain a decentralized economy with, as you mentioned, dependence on
the communications system; the possibility that in the so-called high-tech, knowledge-based economy and society a lot of virtual employment can be undertaken from various places; and the possibility that e
conomic development will move in the direction of a more viable resource stewardship—these all may mean that we don't have to follow this economic adjustment, this transition, all the way to the ext
reme of a few urban ...[+++]polls in the community.