Do Technological Advancements Promote Isolationism?
Oct. 11, 2009 | By Max Cunningham, DSJ Staff Columnist Last week I rode a train for the first time in five years. In a way, I feel bad admitting that. Public transportation is the way of a more sustainable future, and in the mean time it’s usually more efficient than driving a personal vehicle. But for the last five years, that’s exactly what I’ve done: driven my personal vehicle up and down the East Coast, using my own supply of fossil fuels from Saudi Arabia or wherever they might have come from. Now that I’m a college student and the option of personal transportation is out of the picture, I used the train for a trip up north. Evidently, things can change in five years. When did people start bringing laptops onto trains? Riding on the train five years ago I would see the occasional Armani-clad businessman with a laptop out, but today it’s everyone! And in the rare instance of a person without a laptop, there’s a Blackberry in its place. Or at the very, very least an iPod. The pace a
