Creativity Quote by Eric San

A polite apology that lands like a glitch in the middle of the 90s optimism machine. Eric San takes the era's favorite metaphor, the "information superhighway", and punctures it with a confession that reads both shy and defiant: "I'm sorry I do not have a car". The joke is structural. If the internet is a highway, then access is mobility, speed, status. Not having a car means you are technically invited into the future while being quietly excluded from its ease.

As a musician, San is also playing with what it means to participate in a networked culture without the proper gear, credentials, or social permission. The "Dear motorist" salutation positions the listener as someone already cruising: comfortable, equipped, maybe even a little smug. The speaker is the pedestrian at the on-ramp, aware of the rules of the road but lacking the machine that makes those rules feel natural. That "I'm sorry" carries a familiar pressure: the way people from the margins are often trained to pre-apologize for inconveniencing the mainstream, even when the system is what's inconvenient.

There is an extra twist in the contrast between the grand promise of an "information superhighway" and the banal reality of car ownership. It's a reminder that big tech metaphors tend to smuggle in class assumptions. San's line works because it's funny, yes, but also because it turns access into a social embarrassment, revealing how quickly futurism can become a quiet form of gatekeeping.