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I have the intellectual habits of an annoying teenager. Contradictory for the sake of it. I went to see a Richard Long show a few years ago and thought, fine, but you should do that in cities. And I've been listening to and reading all sorts of incredibly smart people talking about urban computing and cities for a while now. Adam, Dan and Matt particularly are always writing astonishingly thoughtful, well-researched stuff about these things. But the annoying teenager in me is feeling the impish, ill-informed urge to say, yeah but, what if something else was true, what then, huh? huh? huh? What if we thought about the countryside instead? That was some of the urge behind Lyddle End 2050. (I know, I know.)

So I thought I'd bash some notes down here and see if it might congeal into a Wired column. Not because I'm convinced there's a real argument here. But because of that annoying dilettante columnist habit; the urge to poke at assumptions a bit to see if there are 800 words in another point of view. It's not big, it's not ...