tjmaglio

Same for walking- in many towns there is no sidewalk which forces anyone walking onto the gutter.

For bike trails, there is an effort to connect Maine to Florida called the East Coast Greenway: https://www.greenway.org/

Having used it myself, it's not continuous but certainly better than nothing.

Would you pity someone who was manipulating data by hand or an accountant calculating taxes all by hand without software or at least a calculator to help them? What about someone manually trying to translate some text instead of using a translation service?

The other side of some manual work is that it exercises you in some way- but if there are things that'll speed up whatever it is you want to do and they are generally available, you will be pitied!

Which is peanuts in the overall costs of healthcare. At what point are you given one as part of your welcome kit? There are already health plans in the US that offer fitbits or will subsidize their cost. The game becomes encouraging a healthier lifestyle to help people avoid getting sick or hurt which costs alot less than treating someone once they have developed a full blown disease. It's one place where both the patients' and the insurer's and hospitals' interests are all in line with each other.

RingTheory makes rings that can access the MBTA (mass transit) in Boston. The product is the "Sesame Ring" and they have partnered with the MBTA on this. http://www.ringtheory.com/#home

The only way to "stand up for what's right" is to be part of the conversation, not to shy away from it. If TK isn't part of that group, then who takes his place? If you had your way and nobody you approve of politically would have representation.

The answers to our problems aren't blatant partisanship, but a robust exchange of ideas. If Trump invites anyone from SV, it'd be extremely foolish to "protest" by taking yourself out of the conversation.

and to these, I would add a talk that he gave at FOSS Asia earlier this year about a hardware devicde made for Burning Man: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNtQsyysaGk&t=5s

The amount of thought put into the design and implementation is remarkable and inspiring.

0. Create fake Facebook account where you live in a foreign place, have pedestrian interests, and so on. 1. Use it to log into Quora and other sites that accept FB

Is the course your teaching going be a MOOC or will the assignments be posted publicly? I'd love to try that assignment myself.