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Maybe the new local news is by intellectual vertical, rather than geographic area.

The railroad was the disruptive technology. It reached into every aspect of industry, commerce, and daily life, a complex network emanating from the center of the largest cities to the remotest countryside. Railroads led to, in Karl Marx’s words, “the annihilation of space by time” and the “transformation of the product into a commodity.” A product

a result, at any time Byron knows their locations, distances traveled that day or overall, average and peak speeds, and acceleration and braking patterns.

Le riche ne voyage plus : il passe d’un hôtel à l’autre. L’immigré est aujourd’hui le dernier voyageur, et les situations de plus en plus difficiles qu’il croise sur son parcours signent la fin du voyage tel qu’on le concevait il y a moins d’un siècle.

Systems in which humans are ‘bearers’ of social relations possess features that make knowing and bringing about proposed futures exceptionally difficult.

These two unrelated developments—the rise of New York, the neglect of Tampa and Mobile—revealed the economics that would affect seaports as container shipping grew. For ports, capturing container traffic was going to be expensive, requiring investments out of all proportion to what had come before. For ship lines, the days when vessels meandered al

The Shipping News and Death of a Shipowner and engrossed in the textbooks Maritime Economics by Martin Stopford and Ship Finance: Credit Expansion & the Boom-Bust Cycle by Peter Stokes.

Collectively, these new modes of transport, based on small vehicles that can be accessed when needed using smartphone apps, have come to be known as micromobility, a term coined by Horace Dediu, a technology analyst, in 2017. He and other advocates of micromobility point to its environmental benefits compared with using cars—including electric cars