The Future of Mobility (The Ideal): What Form of Mobility Does Society Truly Need?

　To begin with what may seem an unexpected question: have you ever browsed the floors of a department store hoping to encounter the perfect item? How many readers today maintain a magazine subscription without any specific article in view?

　Of course, neither behavior has vanished entirely. Yet both the frequency of such experiences and the number of people engaging in them have surely fallen sharply over the past decade or two. These are cases in which an established means has been displaced by an alternative and gone into decline — e-commerce in place of the department store; smartphones, video, and AI in place of the magazine.

　What warrants attention, however, is not the shift itself, but the transformation of the value structures that the displaced means had built up over time. Rather, we should focus on the transformation of the values that those means had previously helped to shape.

　For example...