Name three inventions that changed the lifestyle of New Orleanians in the twentieth century:

1. Car
2. Air Conditioning
3. TV

These three inventions changed New Orleans in ways that we may not like. They damaged neighborhoods by taking people off the streets and off their porches and replaced them with smelly, noisy machines. They created new heights in sedentary living. They increased the gap between the rich and the poor. The TV also creates a national community that replaced the neighborhood or city as a focus for activism and political thought.