The best town centres are already about tea shops, coffee shops, social life generally - regulated by common or civil law. The worst are just collections of big box stores and shopping malls - regulated by corporate policy.

So if the intertubes do away with a lot of the big boxes and shopping malls, I'd call that a good thing.

Granted another .com bubble is what noone wants. If people start believing that the interweb is a magic money machine they will just have us swimming in bullshit in no time.

But the facts suggest we are going through an historic economic transition re: retail distribution and the wibble is at the core of it.

Traditional town center sites are going to have to change their modus vivendi and make tea shoppes for the little old ladies to sit at while browsing for wool supplies etc on their web capable coffee table.

One of the biggest problems is delivery. I suggest drop off depots might become a town center draw and the man or woman who invents a pactical secure doorstep drop off box will have the world beating a path to their door.

Else all deliveries will have to be done 6pm-6am and weekends because otherwise everyone will be waiting for deliveries and noone will have time to go to work, unless of course they are working from home!

Yes, why...

I mean hell, it's only more convenient, cheaper, and with larger variety going through online shops. People might actually try to seek out more better alternatives than be stuck with whatever the local economy throws at their feet. But we wouldn't want to disturb the current order now would we? Bad enough that they might own TVs and can see for themselves what other people might be enjoying.

They shouldn't taste fruits of the horrific burden "we" have to endure with our modern digital economy. So let's keep these people low-tech and backwards so they can plod along like they have for the past half century. We know what's better for "them."

Is it some sort of surprise that old people do not use the internet? Why do a poll for something so obvious?

Why would anyone in their right minds want to boost the digital economy?
Shopping on line leads to local shops and businesses disappearing, along with related jobs. A huge percentage of the European population work in local shops and businesses, or in businesses that supply and service them.

yo brain dead - wtf are u talking about

im born bread usa, but sometimes have my issues

but dam bro - your off the deep end

oh never mind, must be fox news blinded me to the stupidity you subscribe

please, continue to be a dick, it will be recorded for all eternity - but will anyone care

But they have health insurance. And shops next door, working public transportation, good schools, parks and forests, retirement plans etc. And the EU has the highest GDP in the world [CIA World Factbook, International Monetary Fund, The World Bank].

Elsewhere, they have Fox News.

Well if theyd elect the national socialists then theyd got intrenet inserted into every home. Fucking libtards.

Was this an online survey?