After the Car
To my surprise, I discovered a source just with the same school of thought as mine. The predominant idea being presented in this blog is the shift from cars or even their evolution to something better, something even more efficient, something BIG in terms of technology and design, and something ORGANIC!
……Organic?
This source I am referring to is the book, After the Car by Kingsley Dennis and John Urry, and in this book the idea of an organic system is presented. Organic, as we recall is definitely something good, whether it be in terms of food or in terms of cars. It just gives us the right direction as soon as we hear or see the word ‘organic’ with something. Now an ‘organic’ system for cars is something we are looking forward to or you might say we are anticipating. In about 40 years into the future from today, in order to be legitimate and sustainable, cars will have to be re-configured and redesigned in order to integrate multiple means of travel. Not only this, but cars will also have to be designed with respect to the atmosphere and part of world they are being driven in. Today, the cars we buy do consume unleaded fuel, but they still emit harmful substances in the air. And with grieve, I will have to say it is pretty unfortunate that we don’t even care about it much. The future will ask for the preservation of our atmosphere, and hence demanding ‘organic’ cars, if this delivers the idea I am trying to convey.
“Organi-fied” cars and the workplace……
Change is a small word with a huge meaning. People usually tend to resist change, and this I suppose is where they mess up and stunt their own growth professionally and otherwise as well. I personally believe, adapting as swiftly as possible to change is a skill worth million dollars, and it also pays off! Now, change as it means tends to create differences in how things work or have been working. And, a change in any one sector will affect everything around it. Similarly, a change in the transport system will also affect the professional lives of people, and the workplace culture.
An even more efficient transport system, will for sure introduce efficiency to how we work today. Work shares the largest part in the reason for why we own personal cars today. If we did not need cars for going to our workplaces, many of us today would have been car-less. A future with ‘organic’ cars could trigger ‘organic’ workplaces and therefore ‘organic’ professional lives. A simple example of this is, a person today giving 30 per cent of his time to work could in future give 40 per cent of his time to work, hence increasing productivity, and this is because a better car will tend to decrease the total travel time of the day.
And, so this is how a domino effect is incorporated in our lives, and when it comes to the future transport and future work!
