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1/ Time for a small thread I'm excited to share! While it's tempting to view the increase of delivery services as just more of technology disrupting human interaction & further compartmentalizing our society, making it easier for each of us to live in our insular bubbles without
2/ ever having to go outside for any of our needs, this, I'm beginning to think, is the wrong way to frame it. For the very expediency of the services theoretically should grant us more time to spend socializing. After all, how much talking can you do at a grocery store, even if
3/ it is a local one with a clerk you've known for years? They still have a line to take care of. So perhaps what we are seeing more of is just a society that has failed to accommodate the shifting social landscapes remolded by technological breakthroughs & logistical efficiency.
4/ Instead of spending our time bemoaning the world of convenience & the ensuing erosion of the forms of socialization we've grown accustomed to, the real questions to be asking is what we can do with the newly available time delivery services free up? Better still, the very
5/ technology that is creating this rift can be harnessed to create better communities. It's worth asking why things like Kayak that encourage socialization have been so slow to grow & what we can do to reward socialization. Granted, it is true that a world of convenience breeds
6/ some degree of laziness (why go out? I already have all the food & entertainment I need at home!) but is it really so insurmountable that without some effort & trial and error it can't be overcome? My proposition is simple: focus our energies into seeing what actually gets
7/ people out & forming communities. What sort of incentives & technological campaigns can bring neighbors from local places together? Only this will be the solution to fixing our communities. Going against technology is swimming against the tide.
