Now instead of pay phones in gas stations, if you have an emergency virtually every other person you might meet can call 911 for you on the spot, without having to run off to find a pay phone.

People also didn’t live under the expectation of being reachable 24/7.

Similarly, people used paper maps while driving which were cumbersome, but didn’t live under the expectation or the opportunity of traveling to new locations regularly.

I find it nicer to look at a huge map, when visiting a city.

Maybe a 100" TV would be about the same.

But sadly, it is harder to get paper maps now, for obvious reasons.

By traveling to new places, I even just mean that Yelp and Google, coupled with GPS navigation, allow people to more regularly patronize new businesses in the localities they reside in. So it’s much more frequent to be driving to somewhere unfamiliar.

Dude, go touch grass. Being a jerk on YC does not make you look cool, smart, or savvy.

You are the one projecting here. I don’t feel like I’m personally under those expectations, but I definitely see that in other people’s lives. Try to use less inflammatory language on this forum.

In the city, yes.

But my point was, there are other people around. Yell, bang on a house's door, go into the gas station, etc etc.