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Sounds like a lot of infra and related spend via taxes or muni debt for a tech outcome that’s a privacy and autonomy nightmare. Build some trains, build some b
by dogman144 4y ago
Sounds like a lot of infra and related spend via taxes or muni debt for a tech outcome that’s a privacy and autonomy nightmare.
Build some trains, build some bike lanes, and leave the people alone who don’t want their transportation and the downstream reasons people use it taken over by tech.
Governance by a central cybernetic super computer and all the cybernetic hypothesis coming true. Good lord.
- throwaway0a5e 4y ago>Sounds like a lot of infra and related spend via taxes or muni debt for a tech outcome that’s a privacy and autonomy nightmare. That unfortunately puts it right in line with every other tech-heavy thing taxpayers have have to pony up for this century.
- dogman144 4y agoIndeed. I raise issue with the unthinking advocacy here, as if civil society is just a canvas for engineers to paint over. It’s the only thing I hate about this industry. It’s UX-oriented as long as tech is part of the UX. I may sound like a Luddite but I recall being able to go out in NYC without needing to QR-code scan my way through daily life.
- runarberg 4y agoI think you hit the nail on the head with trains, because your parent is pretty much describing a modern train signaling system, down to the centralized supercomputer. > create standardised computer readable infrared road markings, equip each traffic light and each lamp post with a radio beacon, each crash barrier could have a radio marker, create PUBLIC maps of each city, have a central traffic control sypercomputer in each city provide directions to cars. Have each car painted with infrared markers so they recognise each-other. It is amazing how often tech savy folks can reinvent trains.