Kevin King 4/27

After the presentation of the paper by Dr. Redick I wanted to mention a few thoughts I had after this class. It is a very interesting subject and way to look at how our societ has changed in social aspects. I never really blamed the interestate system and cars for taking away from the basic characteristics in our world. Dr. Redick mentioned how because of cars we have greatly reduced in the amount that we socialize we each other. When thinking about this subject I usually thought of more recent inventions such as the Internet for causing this in our society. Even though the Internet greatly reduces our social interactions, it is important to track back to the first wave of technology that began this trend. The interstate system takes away from the way our ancenstors traveled for thousands of years. We have completely tried to manage our environment and make it mroe beneficial for us, while destroying the basic means of life. Everything works out in a way that is acceptable for society, but I do not believe that we are doing everything we are meant to do. Its kind of like we have over civilized ourselves into this world and I thought this presentation was very interesting espeically to look at this concept from a different perspective.