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by Quinn Slobodian · 16 Mar 2018 · 451pp · 142,662 words
period just after the First World War. Globalization talk before the Great War produced many of the tropes that still echo today. Economists spoke of the death of distance, the obsolescence of borders, the impossibility of autonomous domestic policy. That period also introduced a cluster of arguments that are central to the neoliberal imagination
The Gated City (Kindle Single)
by Ryan Avent · 30 Aug 2011 · 112pp · 30,160 words
studies cited above either assume or speculate that information technology is driving the changing relationship between skills, cities, and productivity. In a paper called, "Did the death of distance hurt Detroit and help New York?" economists Edward Glaeser and Giacomo Ponzetto make this connection explicitly. They produce a model in which falling transportation and
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Matthew Kahn, “The Greeness of Cities: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development”, NBER Working Paper No. 14238, August 2008. Glaeser, Edward and Giacomo Ponzetto, “Did the Death of Distance Hurt Detroit and Help New York?”, August 2007. Glaeser, Edward, Giacomo Ponzetto, and Kristina Tobio, “Cities, Skills, and Regional Change”, March 31, 2011. Glaeser, Edward
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by Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane · 11 Apr 2004 · 187pp · 55,801 words
of the Boeing 777 (New York: Scribner, 1996), 58–59. 2. See http://www.boeing.com/commercial/777family/compute/index.html. 3. See Frances Cairncross, The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives (Cambridge: Harvard Business School Press, 1997). 4. A larger fraction of the entire population was working in
The Wisdom of Crowds
by James Surowiecki · 1 Jan 2004 · 326pp · 106,053 words
, and only a quarter of their time working with people who are outside their university. That’s not too surprising. For all the talk of the “death of distance,” people still prefer to work in close physical proximity to their colleagues. But as the SARS example suggests, this may be changing. Technology is now
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by Alain Bertaud · 9 Nov 2018 · 769pp · 169,096 words
restrict trips to avoid congestion. Instead they should better manage the road space available or adopt new technology to allow even more and faster trips. The Death of Distance Has Been Greatly Exaggerated In the “Star Trek” television series, the words “beam me up” were all that was needed to transport people and goods
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? Indeed, it is much cheaper to move data than to move people. This is precisely the main argument developed by Frances Cairncross in her book The Death of Distance (2001). Cairncross suggests that the Internet and the global spread of wireless technology are increasingly making distance irrelevant. Communication technology would make face-to-face
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-density areas would have lost value. This is not happening. Real estate prices in New York, London, Delhi, and Shanghai are still climbing, proving that the death of distance might have been greatly exaggerated. High real estate prices demonstrate that even in cities where mobility causes severe friction—as in New York, London, or
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, 167t, 168f–169f, 170t for urban economics, 171–172, 229–230 for urban planning, 84f, 90, 305, 353, 355–358, 357f Deadwood regulations, 368–369 The Death of Distance (Cairncross), 150 Deaton, Angus, 220, 277, 353, 364 La Defense (Paris), 315, 316f Degentrification, 246–247 Demand-driven land use, 291 Demand side subsidies, 260
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, Juscelino, 26, 384n6 Labor markets CBDs for, 96–97 cities as, 19–27, 33–41, 35f–36f, 38f–39f, 48–49 commuting trips in, 384n17 The Death of Distance (Cairncross), 150 demographic projection for, 150–152, 151f density and, 114–115, 115t economics of, 155–156, 381 for farmers, 134–135 housing supply and
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by Dani Rodrik · 8 Oct 2017 · 322pp · 87,181 words
communities.” What was supposed to have unleashed global engagement and networks had instead strengthened local social ties. There are plenty of other examples that belie the death of distance. One study identified strong “gravity” effects on the Internet: “Americans are more likely to visit websites from nearby countries, even controlling for language, income, immigrant
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson · 26 Jun 2017 · 472pp · 117,093 words
halfway around the world. The Internet’s architecture is, in fundamental ways, indifferent to physical separation, leading to what the journalist Francis Cairncross has called “the death of distance” as a factor limiting the spread of information. Free, perfect, and instant make a powerful combination, worth more than each of these characteristics separately. Thus
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. 136 $11 in 2000: Matthew Komorowski, “A History of Storage Cost,” last modified 2014, Mkomo.com. http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte. 137 “the death of distance”: Francis Cairncross, The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Lives (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1997). 138 computer programmer Craig Newmark: Craig Newmark, LinkedIn profile, accessed
The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century
by Ryan Avent · 20 Sep 2016 · 323pp · 90,868 words
cities should find themselves in this position represents something of a surprise. In 1997 a journalist at The Economist, Frances Cairncross, published a book titled The Death of Distance.1 Her book examined the ways in which the digital revolution was shaping and would continue to shape life and business. Though she seemed to
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the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective’, Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2000. 7. Playgrounds of the 1 per cent 1. Cairncross, Frances, The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Is Changing Our Lives (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1997). 2. UK Office for National Statistics. 3. US Census Bureau
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capital in surpassed by US as leading nation wage subsidies in Brontë, Charlotte Brynjolfsson, Erik bubbles, asset-price Buffalo Bill (William Cody) BuzzFeed Cairncross, Frances, The Death of Distance (1997) capital ‘deepening’ infrastructure investment investment in developing world career, concept of cars see automobiles Catalan nationalism Central African Republic central banks Chait, Jonathan Charlotte
Social Life of Information
by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid · 2 Feb 2000 · 791pp · 85,159 words
in the information age, it also challenges a couple of related "endisms" that infoenthusiasts have championed. The first is what has been talked of as the "death" of distance. The second, the death of the firm. Rumors of their death have certainly been exaggerated. Death of Distance Despite our various mixed metaphors, when we
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as Page 211 little more than containers, education as little more than infodelivery, learning as infoconsumption. And third, there's a good bit of endism. The death of distance will apparently produce a global villagio uniting Indiana and the Apennines. With the villagio in mind, there's much buzz about such things as an
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by Julia Hobsbawm · 11 Apr 2022 · 172pp · 50,777 words
provided some kind of in-built network structure they had to remake alone.6 The management writer Frances Cairncross famously described the internet era as ‘the death of distance’7 but the Nowhere Office sees its rebirth. It is widely acknowledged among recruiters that the pandemic has widened the talent pool substantially.8 As
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March 2020, https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/26/report-whatsapp-has-seen-a-40-increase-in-usage-due-to-covid-19-pandemic/ 7. Frances Cairncross, The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution is Changing Our Lives (Harvard Business Review Press, 2001) 8. Lin Grensing-Pophal, ‘Taking Advantage of a Broader Talent Pool’, Society
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