1) One technology that has changed our sensory relationship with the world is automobiles. The automobile has changed everything in our world through our relationships to sensory, from the way people live all over the world, to our society such as family life, to the economy, and even the environment. Let's first look at a world before automobiles and for example our medieval peasant, let's say he needed to go into town, he would have had to use his wagon or horse and let’s say he couldn't afford either, he would have had to walk for many miles. Today things are much different because of the automobile I can get into my car and drive to the next town, which might take 45 minutes to an hour or even less. If I wanted to I can get in my car and drive to New Mexico and be there in a day where our medieval peasant it would take him a week or so to get there where he have bad blisters, and probably sun poisoning.
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Where because of the automobile in our time, we can travel anywhere within the United States and beyond, because of the automobile it has reduced our travel time where we can move easier from town to town, we now have mass highways that have caused us to be a mobile society. For our medieval peasant, we then look at his work life and how he put food on his table and to his days of labor where he would have worked very hard long hours outside in the elements just to keep a roof over his family head, where he had little or no education. With the innovation of the automobile, we still work and eat like our medieval peasant but in much different ways. Thanks to the automobile we can drive from our homes to our place of employment, our labor is nowhere as hard, our days with the help of the automobile have reduced our work travel times compared to the medieval
Where because of the automobile in our time, we can travel anywhere within the United States and beyond, because of the automobile it has reduced our travel time where we can move easier from town to town, we now have mass highways that have caused us to be a mobile society. For our medieval peasant, we then look at his work life and how he put food on his table and to his days of labor where he would have worked very hard long hours outside in the elements just to keep a roof over his family head, where he had little or no education. With the innovation of the automobile, we still work and eat like our medieval peasant but in much different ways. Thanks to the automobile we can drive from our homes to our place of employment, our labor is nowhere as hard, our days with the help of the automobile have reduced our work travel times compared to the medieval