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• gonvaled 12y ago
  I do not know why you were down-voted, that was interesting. So the quote comes from a fictional report from the late 1950s that tried to make fun of regulation of atomic power. That makes it strangely prescient: first, when the automobile was already a mass-media transportation system, the authors of this satiric piece failed to acknowledge the problems that it had already created in the society they were living in. And second, they do not correctly foresee the problems of atomic power (arms proliferation, for example) They use the car analogy wrongly: the car has actually created lots of problems, they simply do not see them, because they are so used to those problems. Note that I am not saying that the car has not advantages, just that some of the problems stated in the quote are real.