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Originally Posted by ophic
comprehensive public transport system combined with easy access to scheduling information (via aforementioned mobile phones) and weather that's not quite so atrocious. And it's er... effort.
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A few years ago the Gadget Show did an experiment with two teams of two people. One team could use smart phone to access online sources to get themselves from a point in London to some point outside London using public transport only (no taxis) and the other team had to use 'conventional' sources of information, eg the phone and maps and timetables, but not online. The conventional team won by a decent margin, they only did the experiment once so may have been a happy accident, would have been nice to have seen result of best of three using same teams though.
Truth is, taking the smart phone away from millennial or generation Z person is like sending them into the world with a blindfold on. See them in a group and they instagram and facebook each other rather than talk face to face though - they sometimes shove the screen of their phone into someone elses face to make a point, but that is about as personal as it gets.....