Well, we unthinkingly use lifts (or elevators as our American audience would call it), but here’s an article that might might make you think a little more about what you do when you step inside one the next time. If you are the timid kind, you might even try and avoid using the lift whenever you can! Which is not a bad idea, keeps you healthier. Anyway, that’s only the first page. The article is actually a celebration. 

From The New Yorker:

Two things make tall buildings possible: the steel frame and the safety elevator. The elevator, underrated and overlooked, is to the city what paper is to reading and gunpowder is to war. Without the elevator, there would be no verticality, no density, and, without these, none of the urban advantages of energy efficiency, economic productivity, and cultural ferment.