Major Amberton believes apartments will be a "novelty". Eugene Morgan was repeatedly heckled with the ridiculous chant of "git a hos" while out in his horseless carriage. Why are people so suspicious of change? How do lifestyle changes like moving from houses to apartments, from horse-drawn carriage to cars, from writing letters to sending email, from using formula to breastfeeding become the norm?
There is safety in normal - like reading a book, for example. You browse in a book shop or the library, pick up a reassuringly heavy paperback, scan the over, skim the blurb, put it back, repeat the process numerous times - maybe even read the first few pages. You choose one or two, return home to a comfortable chair or escape to bed and begin to read. You use a aged bookmark or dogear the page and put the book down to return to again in another free moment. Now, things are a changing. You can buy an ereader, read numerous reviews online and download a book in seconds. You turn the pages by clicking a button and it will remember the page you stopped at. I'm bristling as I write this. I'm reluctant to change, but I know, deep down, I inevitably will. My home may not have shelves lined with dusty books. I will just have a sleek machine on my bedside table.
Whether its how we spend our freetime, how we live or how we travel staying the same just isn't healthy. We need to move forward and evolve - it's just scary at times.
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