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Even if the technology has moved beyond, it doesn’t affect you, and you aren’t aware of the full implications doesn’t mean that it’s not true. Often, seemingly
by bena 3y ago
Even if the technology has moved beyond, it doesn’t affect you, and you aren’t aware of the full implications doesn’t mean that it’s not true.
Often, seemingly simple things like this open up whole new possibilities.
Like shipping containers. They allow us to effectively and efficiently move goods on and off transport. Without them, whole areas of logistics simply aren’t needed.
- ghaff 3y agoOh, shipping containers I absolutely agree. (The Box by Marc Levinson is well worth a read if you haven't already.) But, given that a non-trivial number of people in the world sleep on something other than a box spring mattress by choice, suggests it's not so transformative. I'm not sure how I see it opening up all these new possibilities. But I also admit to not being terribly fussy what I sleep on and have actually never owned that type of a mattress.
- bena 3y agoBut even if you have a memory foam or whatever, it's likely that we don't have that unless we have interior spring mattresses. Also, we're not talking about the foundation, but the mattress itself. The box spring is the thing that goes under the mattress. An innerspring mattress has the springs in the mattress itself.
- ghaff 3y agoI have a futon on a platform bed and had a waterbed for years before. I've obviously used beds with springs but I've never owned one.
- bena 3y agoThat is radically different from a innerspring mattress. But even outside of futon mattresses, prior to the 19th century, mattresses were essentially just thicker futon mattresses. Heavy, prone to sagging, breeding ground for all sorts of vermin depending on the filling material, mattresses weren't super great.