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Computer chips have been two-dimensional for quite a few orders of magnitude change each in density and speed. I think you're trying to think of your em world scenario as driving change against resistance, rather than trying to guess the equilibrium between constraints, that is, the ways various unreasonable-seeming constraints might intrude qualitatively into your scenario.

Communications bottlenecks relative to computing speed might re-introduce the analog of significant distance, and produce communities that had to be more autonomous. I mean, more informationally self-sufficient. You would have to have copies of information to work with, and do work that would take a subjectively long time between, say, getting the contract and delivering the result. Or you would have to spend time guessing your market subjectively further out.

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this reminds me of accelerando where humans aren't so much exiled from the inner solar system as simply outbid for real estate.

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