> It might not cause the revolution that the Internet has, but it's gonna be damn close. Ubiquitous autonomous roving robots will lead to a revolution at least

> It might not cause the revolution that the Internet has, but it's gonna be damn close. Ubiquitous autonomous roving robots will lead to a revolution at least as big as the Internet, but probably bigger. Like the printing press, the Internet made distances shorter, but in a low-fidelity way since reality has much higher bandwidth. With self-driving cars, suddenly “real” distances become smaller since 12 hour trips become routine†. The differences between, say, a middle-class Oklahoman, Texan, Missourian, Coloradian, et.al. start to disappear, and this scenario will play out all across the U.S. and other large regions (Canada? India?). †If we raise the speed limit to 120 mph (mostly afforded by a change in energy policy), then I could trek from Oklahoma to NY or LA every weekend.