Good post

Ever wonder why people carry so much stuff in their bags? Well, check out THIS post, from 43 Folders on an article in the Washington Post.

Check the prose on this excerpt from the WP:

The Walkman, introduced in 1979, Hine says in an e-mail, “probably set the precedent; it allowed people to be physically in a space, but mentally detached. The plethora of ‘communications’ devices we carry are also tools of isolation from the immediate environment. And, in the words of the recruiting ad, we each become ‘an army of one’ carrying all our tools of survival through a presumably hostile world.”