LONDON — Richard Trevithick’s steam engine has transformed daily life over the past quarter century. Whether we embrace new technologies or try to guard our old ways of life, technological change is here to stay. We know that we are living in the middle of major economic and social change, but how much progress is possible and does it come at a cost to society? In the first part of this series, I will be looking at how the steam locomotive has changed our daily lives. In the last 25 years, small railways have been linked together. This means that travel from one city to another can be part of an average person’s daily routine. Speed and efficiency are words that define our new world. Railway transportation moves people and materials at record
