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Originally Posted by Phanuthier
thats a blanket statement, really.
autonomous vehicles might be known and done, but that doesn't mean the whole technology is there. On a system level, there was still a LOT of technology that was not / is not available yet which holds it a back, a lot more then society accepting it. A lot of these types of advancements are more technical then a layman level, but they advanced due to other products/industries pushing it forward. Yes, there is a social push back to these types of things... but technology will keep on pushing on. This won't be an overnight thing, this won't happen world wide at the same time and it won't go from 0 to 60 for full automation, but the world is definitely going that way. Whether it goes to full automation I don't know, but money-driven big companies wouldn't spend hundred billions of dollars for a pie in the sky idea.
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The resignation to complete technologization has been termed by a favourite blogger of mine as the "Borg Complex." It is just faith, pure and simple. Companies have always spent billions of dollars with increasingly marginal return, and it doesn't mean that they will inevitably someday be successful.
Artificial intelligence, for example, is decades, maybe centuries away, from any meaningful advance.
In regards to automation, we have only advanced the capacity to which computers can process information (even this has a cap, when we get transistors down to the atomic level, Moore's Law just stops working). We haven't solved software problems, economies of scale issues, or the growing birth dearth. All of these are issues that will incredibly impede, slow, or make impossible the progress you think is inevitable.
The truth is, all technological innovation is contingent, over-hyped, and always exposed to the human component.