flying south from boston on clear night looking down to unbroken carpet of lights showing settlements all the way to virginia would reveal the existence of

It would reveal the existence of a Megalopolis, How the overpopulation expanded each year the metropolitan areas, this concept has started since Industrial Revolution Era in the XX century, some cities became very popular because of the great quantities of factories and industries that were develop in there and people start to move it to those places, this generate an increase on the laboral rate but also started difficult situation in all that is concern with water, transportation, environment and real estate problem.

And now, on the XXI century, in cities with more technological and industries advances we have more overpopulation, it's so high that we can appreciate it looking down from a plane while we are landing to those big cities, in our actual era most of people prefer to live in a city with great advances even if they have to handle contamination, traffic or overpopulation instead of living out of the city in an appart rural town because this world is going so faster that if we stop us to live a calm life we're going to be out of the actual tools (most of them technological) to develop our routine day.