I think there's always a level of technological pessimism with people. When I was a kid it was with computers. "This stupid thing? All its good for is holding r

I think there's always a level of technological pessimism with people. When I was a kid it was with computers. "This stupid thing? All its good for is holding recipes and I can get a recipe book that doesn't cost $3000!" Or when I was a teen, the pessimism of Mars missions was popular. I think there were 3 or 4 Mars movies all of which ended in disaster. Now its a boring budget line item at NASA. The pessimists have been in high-gear lately about anything that removes human judgement from the equation. High profile anti-AI and anti-drone screeds are here to stay. I just think people buy into neo-ludditism very easily and lash out at automation because it says that humans aren't as important to the process as we thought we were. Ned Ludd vs progress is a story we have yet to learn from and are destined to repeat, probably endlessly, as automation and AI make more sense than human judgement and human risk in so many cases. Our grandkids will be laughing at antiquated ideas like an error-prone human driver the same way we laugh at, say, riding a horse to work or hand-making things that are easily mass producible.