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This sounds good in theory because it correlates with trends in the IT industry. Centralized compute/storage/app delivery on an IaaS but in the real world, with

This sounds good in theory because it correlates with trends in the IT industry. Centralized compute/storage/app delivery on an IaaS but in the real world, with our actual physical stuff instead of data. In practice I'd wager that this lifestyle of moving constantly and having robots move your stuff around for you would be prohibitively expensive. Also, who wants to containerize their life? How could this ever be sustainable for someone with kids. I think we should be less focused on autonomous driving, and more focused on reforming our tax code, infrastructure spend (too little), and healthcare spend (too much).

stretchwithme 9y ago
I know a guy that travels constantly and has no permanent address. And there are a few families that spend years on the road because they want to teach their kids that life is an adventure. They haven't found it prohibitively expensive or unsustainable. It's worth it to them. Making that lifestyle cheaper and easier will expand the number of people for whom that is true. Automation, as it has always done, will make our infrastructure cheaper and more robust. It will slash the cost of healthcare and dramatically increase the amount of resources we have available and our quality of life. So, no, I don't think we should focus more on nibbling around the edges of what is possible. Those things can all be fixed, but that takes political will and convincing the majority of people. And most of them are stuck in the analogies of the past.