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<blockquote data-quote="ilostabet" data-source="post: 1422213" data-attributes="member: 13181">Regarding cars and roads: [MEDIA=youtube]geBQNOid_7A[/MEDIA]The longer the distances your technology allows you to cover, the more the society will be restructured around it - so in the short term things will be closer, and in the long term they will be further away (this goes for cars as well as communication technology). Tech (especially industrial) always starts as an option, and then it becomes indispensable - which means an added layer of consumption and cost to your life that you did not have before to accomplish basic things. It is totalitarian in its implications. And these are consequences of the advantages, not the disadvantages (like pollution, extremely high death rates and so on). Even if we were able to do away with these disadvantages, the actual advantages of the car and roads imply a different type of cost (which is not easily nor immediately seen).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ilostabet, post: 1422213, member: 13181"] Regarding cars and roads: [MEDIA=youtube]geBQNOid_7A[/MEDIA] The longer the distances your technology allows you to cover, the more the society will be restructured around it - so in the short term things will be closer, and in the long term they will be further away (this goes for cars as well as communication technology). Tech (especially industrial) always starts as an option, and then it becomes indispensable - which means an added layer of consumption and cost to your life that you did not have before to accomplish basic things. It is totalitarian in its implications. And these are consequences of the advantages, not the disadvantages (like pollution, extremely high death rates and so on). Even if we were able to do away with these disadvantages, the actual advantages of the car and roads imply a different type of cost (which is not easily nor immediately seen). [/QUOTE]

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