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Re:At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’... by Alex3917 on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @02:58PM (#13420619)
> I like the comparison to horses.

I haven't seen any data, but my guess is that the average person's commute is roughly the same as it was 150 years ago. And if at some point we have self-driving cars or flying cars, we'll still spend roughly the same time commuting as we do today.

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Re:At Davos, IBM Chief Predicts Artificial Intelligence Won’... by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @03:15PM (#13420759)
> I haven't seen any data, but my guess is that the average person's commute is roughly the same as it was 150 years ago.

I think you'd probably be wrong (though it may depend strongly on which average you take); even with the industrial revolution, working at home, or essentially so (whether yeoman farming or living upstairs from the shop) was a lot more common 150 years ago than it is now, though it may be more common now than it was just before telecommuting.

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