The Design That Started the Loneliness Epidemic | Sony Walkman

In 1979, Sony co-founder Masaru Ibuka asked his engineers for a portable cassette player he could use on long flights. What they built changed the way humans occupy public space. The Walkman taught a generation that you could be physically present and socially absent at the same time. This is how a single Sony product quietly rewrote the rules of public life, and an argument that the loneliness we now blame on smartphones actually started with a cassette player in 1979. Ways to support our channel: Patreon:   / designdocs   Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/shop/DesignDocs Other things: Instagram: @bctld Portfolio: SingleSpeed.us