Does Improved Communication and Transportation Help Us? Do you use e-mail, facebook or Skype? I use them all and they help a lot. I can be in a bus and answer my friend, I can be waiting at the airport or just having a video call with my friends at home. It doesn’t matter much where I live or where I spend my time, but I can still be somehow connected. The word “somehow” is very important here. Are you asking why? When I use any kind of chat to answer my friend’s message, then I’m not using full range of communication. I’m not telling him everything. It can cause many misunderstandings and many problems that take long to solve. This is one of the biggest disadvantages I see. I know that when I just text my friends, then it takes much longer than a phone call. Phone call takes much longer than video call. While when I bump into friend on my way home, it takes few seconds to agree on a meeting. Why? Because we have much more communication sources like body language, mimics, voice tone, eye contact, smile... this is all that you cannot receive via phone or just text. The advantage of faster transportation is much easier access to friends, but that causes that people are living more and more alone. That makes them unable to help each other. People have finally much less time than when living together. Fast transportation is good for delivering goods, but not for relationships. Overall, the social disadvantages of improved communication and transportation are much higher than the advantages. The only advantage is that anyone can answer any time, but also loses the privacy and doesn’t receive full range of information resources. That causes many social problems we aren’t aware of. Pavel