People are hysterical about driverless cars. They just don’t get it. That’s what’s really interesting about both the design of and the reaction to Google’s latest self driving car.
As it happens, there’s a fascinating archive episode of Horizon on BBC iPlayer that dates from 1978. It’s about computer chips and how they will make us all unemployed.
It basically predicts end of days if we don’t stop the computer chip from replacing nearly all of us as workers. It predicts even doctors will be gone soon. There’s a similar hysteria surrounding driverless cars right now.
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