The countryside is vanishing. People are leaving villages at record rates worldwide. Agriculture is now highly mechanized and increasingly automated, needing fewer workers each year. In the future, most will live in climate-controlled megacities, self-contained urban bubbles, as capitalism always favors consolidation at the top.

There will be exceptions, elites on vast private estates dubbed “future suburbs,” or resilient small towns surviving through local economies or intentional communities or network state cities/towns.

But traditional villages and towns, as we know them, may largely disappear.