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Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by Aelinsaar on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:00PM (#12169032)
"Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -The Shirky Principle
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Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by heimatau on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:20PM (#12169166)
Great quote. I call it corruption, self-preservation that hurts the masses, and status quo thinking. Technology is going to hopefully disrupt all of this.
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Re:Driverless Cars Threaten to Crash Insurers’ Earnings by Aelinsaar on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @06:40PM (#12169274)
It's the only thing that can, if history is any guide. Society and "ethics" are so often a function of our technology, however simple we now consider that tech to be.
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