Traffic Jams and Automobiles
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Sean Rose and added
“This is why I brought Blueprint along, everybody,” I said. “As you can see, he’s a forward thinker. The writer Frederik Pohl once said, ‘A good science fiction story should be able to predict not the automobile but the traffic jam.’ The claim that everything in the future will be programmable is an automobile idea. It’s not too hard to see or say
... See moreImagine that you're passing a lazy afternoon at a sidewalk café on a mild spring day, sipping your drink, chatting with a couple of friends, and watching the cars go by. That's easy. In fact, it's effort-less: the cars just go wherever they go, and you're happily unem-ployed. But now suppose that for some reason you suddenly fall under the delusion
... See moreRob Tourtelot added
The right metaphor here is not “Let’s stick with horses, even though automobiles get around,” because automobiles were clearly a more energy- and monetarily efficient way of moving things from A to B, just like email is clearly a more efficient way for me to deliver a memo to you than a fax machine. The metaphor is that it took a while before we f
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