{"id":144649,"date":"2020-04-29T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=144649"},"modified":"2020-04-29T12:03:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T16:03:50","slug":"the-commute-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/04\/29\/the-commute-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Commute of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/deptofmind.interior-143.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-144650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/deptofmind.interior-143.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/deptofmind.interior-143.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/deptofmind.interior-143-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/deptofmind.interior-143-768x465.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Tom Gauld was born in 1976 and grew up in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He is a cartoonist and illustrator, and his work is published in the\u00a0<\/em>Guardian<em>,\u00a0<\/em>The New Yorker<em>, and\u00a0<\/em>New Scientist<em>. His comic books\u2014<\/em>Baking with Kafka<em>,\u00a0<\/em>Mooncop<em>,\u00a0<\/em>You\u2019re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack<em>, and\u00a0<\/em>Goliath<em>\u2014are published by Drawn &amp; Quarterly. He lives in London with his family.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/1531\/9781770463752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Mind-Blowing Theories<\/a><em>, by Tom Gauld. 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