A waste of time learning to drive?
I was asking today - is modern technology teaching us all to be lazy spellers? New research suggests it is - because of the ubiquitous spell checker. But then, thirty years ago we were all worried that the new whizz bang invention called the calculator was going to turn us into a culture that could no longer add up.
Come to think of it - perhaps that has happened! The simplest of sums now, and I reach for the mobile phone's calculator app....
But how about this? Our gadget guy on BBC Radio Berkshire, Fevzi Turkalp, says that most of our household gadgets will be voice activated within just a few years. And that includes the self-driving car. Apparently Google have already pioneered a self-driving Prius. One of the things holding up the whole technology is the legal side of things. If you were to have an accident in a self-driving car, who would be liable? The car manufacturer, the owner of the software or you?
My son is at the moment costing me a small fortune in driving lessons. Perhaps he should just wait for the day (supposedly soon) when he can sit in the car and simply ask it to go to his destination.
I personally cannot wait!
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At 11:19 23rd May 2012, LarryWoller wrote:Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmm, and one day technology won't need humans.... I believe it was Nelle Harper Lee (author of To Kill A Mockingbird) who said "an abundant society where people have cell phones, laptops, iPods and minds like empty rooms"...smile..
The whole scenario reminds me of a book published by Dennis Feltham Jones called "Colossus" and a movie made from the book called "Colossus;The Forbin Project".. hopefully something of that nature won't happen in my lifetime..smile
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