@Griffith >It’s not all bad
You see this is where I disagree. Quicker and safer modes of transportation suck the nationality, regionality, and locality away and communities die, especially when dependency on these systems becomes the norm. Yeah, it's *technically* people's fault for using those things in that way, but you could also make the argument that using them in that way was inevitable, a feature instead of a bug.
On the whole, industrial technology and all the developments thereafter are focused on EFFICIENCY above all else, and it's therefore doomed to always be a hinderance to humanity, because humans, people, aren't efficient. We're not meant to be numbers on a spreadsheet. We're meant to be spread out and separated so we develop unique vernacular cultures. The more we invent and use these gay machines the more we as a society become gay machines.