> Modern Phoenix is entirely dependent on cars and air conditioning. It's not very human-friendly. What is with the obsession with air conditioning in Phoenix?

> Modern Phoenix is entirely dependent on cars and air conditioning. It's not very human-friendly. What is with the obsession with air conditioning in Phoenix? New York is dependent on heat moreso than Phoenix is dependent on air conditioning. Does that make it “not very human friendly”? People seem to think “air conditioning is evil technology” while simultaneously thinking “obviously we need heating to live in otherwise uninhabitable locations”. > It was only a slight incremental improvement over the existing state-of-the art. This downplays the real-time and feedback mechanisms. Cab drivers behaved like grade A pieces of shit because there was no rating mechanism to encourage anything else. You may have had GPS dispatch, but people couldn’t get a real time ETA nor was there any actual commitment to pick that person up.