Lessons from a Broken Escalator

I love this clip (thanks to Jack Needham for sharing it with me). It brings about some interesting thoughts, including:

• On a very basic surface-level, it portrays our over-reliance on technology.
  
• How much control over decision-making have we relinquished to technology?
  
• How often do paradigms of thinking get so deeply ingrained, that we'll do almost anything to cling on to them?
• In our efforts to be wise, unique, and/or trendsetting, do we sometimes forget that many of the best solutions are the mundane and obvious ones? Just walk up the stairs!
• Are our followers waiting for us to save them? Have we created this dependency by building escalators for them instead of stairs?