Elon Musk came up with an answer to maddeningly-crowded city streets due to traffic and, as always, he delivered it with a disarmingly simple solution: tunnel underground. Before groaning overmuch at the thought of returning to the Rock City, if there's anything we know about Elon Musk it's that he will do whatever he says. (RT: Elon Musk revs up plans for LA underground car tunnel)
If you dig into the article a bit, you will find he talks calmly of going down thirty layers so the Rock City envisioned here at the Rockhouse isn't such an extreme extension given that type of construction taking place already or at least in the near future.
People have consistently walked away from the idea of robos replacing human jobs but perhaps they will listen when even CNN starts saying it. (CNN: Rise of the machines: Fear robots, not China or Mexico)
These types of concepts aren't comforting to people and may even be disturbing. Plan B is deny any of it could ever happen so I can find a suit and make big bucks saying that on MSM but reality doesn't jibe well with that lot. I've brought many examples to you and the most recent was regarding big-dollar investment in autonomous big rig trucks. (Ithaka: Big Rig Trucks of the Future ... Look Beautiful)
We can deny evolution in action all we like but it happens anyway and you have seen the billions going into autonomous devices of any kind.
It wasn't much consolation for one to hear there will still be personal automobiles in the future but you will only be able to legally drive them on tracks and it will be hella expensive. Maybe there's some irony for you in that humans are fairly good at driving fast than we are at driving slowly. People crack up constantly when we must keep pace with each other but robos do that effortlessly, seamlessly, and, here's the corporate beauty part, inexpensively.
Maybe there's futility in expressing a case which is routinely rejected, at least to some extent, but the vision is clear and I may not like it since I have always enjoyed driving ... but I can't ignore my own crack-ups on the road which have been many and varied.
There's no way I will jinx the person by giving away the identity but I do know one who has never been in an automobile accident. That individual makes the only person I have met in sixty-six years who can even come near the safety record of a robo.
This entire subject arena is a giant ten-point toss-up question since any aspect may be illuminating to someone or even take it in some new direction. I want a room full of Nobel Prize winners so we can set them up in some cool place with all kinds of gizmos, drugs, and hookers so we can beseech them, "Here's all the cool stuff so just sit around and think up things."
Ed: why do they need you?
To fill up the water bowls. It would be a shit job, tho, since running that lot would be listening to some subset of the profs talking about how another subset of the profs is 'crucifying them intellectually.' Someone has to sort that.
Ed: you think you will outsmart them?
Noooo. My hope is to grow thick enough skin to handle it since the mediator always gets slashed.
If you dig into the article a bit, you will find he talks calmly of going down thirty layers so the Rock City envisioned here at the Rockhouse isn't such an extreme extension given that type of construction taking place already or at least in the near future.
People have consistently walked away from the idea of robos replacing human jobs but perhaps they will listen when even CNN starts saying it. (CNN: Rise of the machines: Fear robots, not China or Mexico)
These types of concepts aren't comforting to people and may even be disturbing. Plan B is deny any of it could ever happen so I can find a suit and make big bucks saying that on MSM but reality doesn't jibe well with that lot. I've brought many examples to you and the most recent was regarding big-dollar investment in autonomous big rig trucks. (Ithaka: Big Rig Trucks of the Future ... Look Beautiful)
We can deny evolution in action all we like but it happens anyway and you have seen the billions going into autonomous devices of any kind.
It wasn't much consolation for one to hear there will still be personal automobiles in the future but you will only be able to legally drive them on tracks and it will be hella expensive. Maybe there's some irony for you in that humans are fairly good at driving fast than we are at driving slowly. People crack up constantly when we must keep pace with each other but robos do that effortlessly, seamlessly, and, here's the corporate beauty part, inexpensively.
Maybe there's futility in expressing a case which is routinely rejected, at least to some extent, but the vision is clear and I may not like it since I have always enjoyed driving ... but I can't ignore my own crack-ups on the road which have been many and varied.
There's no way I will jinx the person by giving away the identity but I do know one who has never been in an automobile accident. That individual makes the only person I have met in sixty-six years who can even come near the safety record of a robo.
This entire subject arena is a giant ten-point toss-up question since any aspect may be illuminating to someone or even take it in some new direction. I want a room full of Nobel Prize winners so we can set them up in some cool place with all kinds of gizmos, drugs, and hookers so we can beseech them, "Here's all the cool stuff so just sit around and think up things."
Ed: why do they need you?
To fill up the water bowls. It would be a shit job, tho, since running that lot would be listening to some subset of the profs talking about how another subset of the profs is 'crucifying them intellectually.' Someone has to sort that.
Ed: you think you will outsmart them?
Noooo. My hope is to grow thick enough skin to handle it since the mediator always gets slashed.
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