Saturday, March 1, 2014

"Utopia" and Tech Bubbles

Sometimes it is hard to know what to make of Tesla. It is hard to know what to make of Google's self-driving vehicles. But we should try not to get silly. 

This analysis of the impact of autonomous vehicles uses the term "utopian society" by 2026. You might keep in mind that "utopian" means "an imaginary place or state of things."

Maybe one sign of a bubble, especially a tech bubble, is that silly things get said. 

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