If it ever existed in the minds of the layperson, the white space between national security and economic prosperity is gone. They are now two parts of one whole.
If you are one of the more than 3.5 billion people living in a city, your cell phones, camera feeds, applications, and credit card transactions are part of real-time security networks.
In 2018, technology is eating manual labor.
This tectonic shift — from manual labor to automation through technology — is most acute in cities, from Pittsburgh to Shanghai.