Location is still important

Filed under:Tech, Thought Provoking — posted by Paul on December 28, 2009 @ 21:10

The ever impressive Tim Harford examines the importance of location on the spread of knowledge and wealth.

And two years ago I described research at Google – not exactly a technological dinosaur – which found that the best predictor of who knew what was where they sat. For all the wonders of the internet age, location is as important as ever.



image: detail of installation by Bronwyn Lace