ESSAY
"The Commuting Community"

Categories

Jina Kim

April 29, 2003

National

Economics/Business

Technology

Travel

Communication

Natural determinism

Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"My dad once explained to me how he got to work.  He carpooled with other people, he said.  More specifically, he waited with a crowd of people at a corner, where people in cars would come and pick them up....
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Slugging is no technological innovation.  It only takes trust, which can be hard to build than a nuclear reactor."

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