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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Saturday, March 1, 2014
"Utopia" and Tech Bubbles
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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