One of the reasons why the American “rust belt” rusted was that the model was based on the story that multiple regions can thrive on the production of a single commercial and consumer object: the transportation vehicle.
The model would have zero credibility today, and yet many communities suffer the paralysis of nostalgia for the model because it actually worked for awhile. Awhile on the scale of 14 million years of human existence would be somewhere around a nanosecond, maybe less.
Given that we continue to have many idea and production people, how can this generation co-invent a model that thrives on an ecology of products to produce? And what would be included in that ecology?
