In the 1970s two psychologists timed strangers walking down the street. The bigger the city, the faster people walked. But your body does the exact opposite.
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https://www.patreon.com/chrislehtoSo why does a city speed up as it gets bigger? A team at the Santa Fe Institute pulled the numbers on hundreds of cities. Roads and cable and gas stations grow like a body. Wages and patents and crime go the other way. Then I get into why the company you work for has a clock on it and the city doesn't. And what happens when half the people you bump into are AI.
The source for every number is on screen and listed below. Stay for the bloopers.
Do you walk faster when you're in a big city? Tell me in the comments.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Why big city people walk faster
1:24 The law under your skin
2:28 A body is a network of pipes
2:56 The city breaks the rule
3:43 The people part
4:55 Your job has a half-life
5:27 Try to kill a city
6:15 One floor up
7:17 When half the people are AI
7:55 Bloopers
8:42 Credits
Sources: Bornstein and Bornstein, Nature 1976. Kleiber, Hilgardia 1932. West, Brown and Enquist, Science 1997. Bettencourt et al., PNAS 2007. Daepp et al., J. R. Soc. Interface 2015.
Music and sound: Epidemic Sound.
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