uber, opioids, and architecture

There is actually no significant connection between these three things. Architects would like to believe that modern taxi service and self-driving cars will ignite some sort of design revolution, but that is pure fantasy. The opioid crisis is loosely connected to design issues by virtue of its broad reach. Heroin dealers took advantage of a robust transportation network to expand their addict base. More precisely, their addict base had been delivered to them on a silver platter by the machinations of drug companies.