Originally Posted by ianbrettcooper

I guess I should have been more specific. The study appears to me to be biased towards getting people hooked up to technology that may not be all that useful. It's great if people use car-free time to use apps that allow them to work from home or to make their day more efficient. The problem is that, in practice, people are much more superficial than that.

Also, part of what I like about cycling is that it gets me away from technology and back to a more human world in which my most complex technology can be repaired with a wrench for a few dollars, rather than needing to be replaced at a cost of hundreds.

Maybe I'm just a cynic, but it seems much more likely that the future will bring a world that's hooked into the web and spending 99% of the time looking up porn or watching mindless reality TV - i.e. wasting time and energy rather than spending it.