I am really uncomfortable with the current trend towards "you can't do basic things like get around town unless you've previously signed up for a thing" (where "thing" could be a T pass or an EZ pass or a Lyft account or whatever).

I see where it makes things more convenient and efficient overall, but it feels like locking up more and more things and forcing everyone to jump through hoops to get into them -- and if you're a stranger or in an emergency or have some technical issue that makes jumping through the hoops difficult, then you're pretty much screwed.

(And, also, if you have to be electronically signed up for everything, then it's real hard to mitigate the surveillance state.)

I dunno. The future is great, and also terrible.