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Yes but the idea was lost in the process. It became a faster transportation system that uses air as a medium, but that’s it. Personal planes are still either bi
by wruza 2y ago
Yes but the idea was lost in the process. It became a faster transportation system that uses air as a medium, but that’s it. Personal planes are still either big business or an expensive and dangerous personal toy thing. I don’t think it’s the same for LLMs (would be naive). But where are promises like “we’re gonna change travel economics etc”? All headlines scream is “AGI around the corner”. Yeah, now where’s my damn postman flying? I need my mail.
- ben_w 2y ago> It became a faster transportation system that uses air as a medium, but that’s it. On the one hand, yes; on the other, this understates the impact that had. My uncle moved from the UK to Australia because, I'm told*, he didn't like his mum and travel was so expensive that he assumed they'd never meet again. My first trip abroad… I'm not 100% sure how old I was, but it must have been between age 6 and 10, was my gran (his mum) paying for herself, for both my parents, and for me, to fly to Singapore, then on to various locations in Australia including my uncle, and back via Thailand, on her pension. That was a gap of around one and a half generations. * both of them are long-since dead now so I can't ask
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