Sure, there's more home delivery of stuff now than before, but they made it sound like a lot of people would have groceries delivered. While there's more of that now than in 1986, it's largely the extremely busy, the elderly or otherwise shut ins. People who have money and no time also use the service, as bchbum_98, but it's not quite the economic force that they seem to be talking about. As a percentage of the population, I don't think it's that much higher than the percentage of people using Meals on Wheels or catering services in '86. I'd say that coops are more popular now than individual deliveries. People have more time than money, and want better connection with their food.
If their prediction can be said to come true in the larger sense, it's not merely amazon.com and other on-line stores that ship to your door using better FedEx/UPS management, but iTunes and the internet taking away the need for any physical delivery at all. Again, this didn't seem to be what they were talking about. They were replacing the A&P and missed replacing vinyl.
re HGH: Yes, more options are open now, but very few parents subject their kids to drugs that early unless the kid has a severe medical problem. There are still questions about long-term results. As a society, we've been debating this for a long time now, and the protective instincts of parents outweigh their pushiness. I think Babylon 5 had it right when the doctor was revealed to have been altered as a small child, and would have been ostracized had anyone known.
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Re: home delivery of goods
Date: 2006-08-17 11:00 pm (UTC)Sure, there's more home delivery of stuff now than before, but they made it sound like a lot of people would have groceries delivered. While there's more of that now than in 1986, it's largely the extremely busy, the elderly or otherwise shut ins. People who have money and no time also use the service, as bchbum_98, but it's not quite the economic force that they seem to be talking about. As a percentage of the population, I don't think it's that much higher than the percentage of people using Meals on Wheels or catering services in '86. I'd say that coops are more popular now than individual deliveries. People have more time than money, and want better connection with their food.
If their prediction can be said to come true in the larger sense, it's not merely amazon.com and other on-line stores that ship to your door using better FedEx/UPS management, but iTunes and the internet taking away the need for any physical delivery at all. Again, this didn't seem to be what they were talking about. They were replacing the A&P and missed replacing vinyl.
re HGH: Yes, more options are open now, but very few parents subject their kids to drugs that early unless the kid has a severe medical problem. There are still questions about long-term results. As a society, we've been debating this for a long time now, and the protective instincts of parents outweigh their pushiness. I think Babylon 5 had it right when the doctor was revealed to have been altered as a small child, and would have been ostracized had anyone known.