Rickshaw driver Eric Brende lives a low-tech lifestyle
Tuesday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch featured an article about Eric Brende, who has recently written a book entitled "Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology":
Brende truly believes that our modern world - loaded with time-saving devices -actually causes people to constantly complain that there's not enough time. His theory: These beloved machines are creating more labor than they're saving. . . .
His commercial world includes making soap, which Brende peddles at the Soulard Market, and operating a rickshaw, his low-tech taxi service. It focuses on tourists, moving between restaurants and hotels. . . .
The day we met Brende, he arrived on his bicycle, which he calls a "recumbent," shaped somewhat like a laid-back lawn chair. It's another example of Brende's new world - a cycle that "puts you in a much more natural, seated position. It conforms to the shape of your body, and can be ridden faster and with more power than the new cycles of today."
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