4 ms·
Uber's air taxi vision isn't amazing it's dystopian
- spunker540 7y agoAnd the first computer ads were showing a dystopian world where the rich can converse on expensive computers about how poor everyone else is who doesn’t have one and can have unlimited access to information while the poor live in isolation. New things tend to be expensive—it’s pretty rare for any new technology or standard of living to become universally available from day one. This is true of tvs, radios, computers, fridges, air conditioners. I can’t see why helicopters are any more dystopian when they become more available.
- throwawayduck 7y agoDisclaimer: I work for Uber. > Michael Kaine is national secretary of the Transport Workers’ Union. When the author has such a strong conflict of interest, the byline really should be at the top of the article and the conflict of interest be spelled out loud and clear for the reader before they start reading. Anything else is journalistic malpractice.