> A world where you could walk to the things you need because they're close?
That was the world before cars - it's cars and access to good infrastructure that changed the world to its current state where local businesses can't compete anymore.
Re:The AI Misinformation Epidemic
by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @09:13AM
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> Cheap, safe, non-polluting, no maintenance car?
We've made tremendous progress in that direction since 1960. What's your point?
> A world where you could walk to the things you need because they're close?
That's not a technology problem; much of the developed world is like that and more of the world is getting to be like it with progressive urbanization. The US made a deliberate social choice to focus on auto-centric development that inhibits that a bit in the US, but that's a social problem, not a technical one.
Re:The AI Misinformation Epidemic
by jodrellblank on Tuesday March 28, 2017 @12:08PM
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We've made tremendous progress in that direction since 1960. What's your point?
That it's easy to imagine things being better...
Cheap, safe, non-polluting, no maintenance car?
Self-driving, self-cleaning car?
Automated horse with roof and luggage compartment - no need for paved roads, muscles are quieter than engines?