> Plenty of cars in the 90s and we played outside all day. Same in the 1970s/1980s. I grew up in a suburb-type neighborhood. Needed a car to go to work or to d

> Plenty of cars in the 90s and we played outside all day. Same in the 1970s/1980s. I grew up in a suburb-type neighborhood. Needed a car to go to work or to do any shopping or go basically anywhere. Rode a bus to school. The idea that car-centric development is a relatively new phenomenon is just wrong. It's been happening since the 1950s. We still played outside. We had TV but like 6 channels and nothing very interesting for a kid most of the time. Now we have ubiquitous computers and phones, and the sociopathic tech companies, which have really been just terrible for everyone except their investors.