This article is particularly interesting, not so much because of the fact that someone wants to propose the banning of iPod use while crossing the street, but moreso because the very suggestion that this is a measure we need to take says a lot it seems about where technology is driving us. Have we become so desperate for personal space and privacy in the streets of New York that we plug in and disassociate from even that which may kill us? I was having a conversation with someone earlier about how this is probably a generation gap and I tend to believe this may be true. Younger children, my thirteen year old sister is a prime example of this, have no problem multi-tasking and interacting with various aspects of technology both in the physical and virtual world simultaneously. But perhaps older adults, lacking the experience of growing up in a culture that stresses such abilities, may find it difficult to navigate through a world of physical space while attached to a sense of virtual space. I have a tendency to believe, however, that some of this also has to with the intersection between physical and virtual space that can be disconcerting, in other words its almost impossible to participate in both simultaneously with no cross-over. I once had a friend who met a friend of a friend on myspace. They didn't know each other in the physical world, even though they were both close to their mutual friend. One day, accidentally, they met at a bar. She described it to me as being one of the strangest and ultimately the most disappointing experience she'd had in a while. .Confronted by a physical setting, the two were practically incapable of maintaining a decent conversation. They eventually stopped talking in the virtual world based on this meeting.