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self-driving Uber cars? What could possibly go wrong? ... There comes a point at which the helpfulness of technology becomes a form of oppression: walled gard
by pmlnr 11y ago
self-driving Uber cars? What could possibly go wrong?
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There comes a point at which the helpfulness of technology becomes a form of oppression: walled gardens, predictive services making the wrong predictions, and every social platform forcing us to use our real names. It's cute when it's small, but what happens when self-driving cars can collude with the cops?
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/one-star https://motherboard.vice.com/read/one-star
( previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11149653 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11149653 )
- pmlnr 11y agoDownvotes? Lol. Start reading some oldschool science fiction: those are to point out possible outcomes, both bad and good, of technical evolution. Self driving cars in our current world, in our current system will not go well. We need changes in the heads first.