Science Times

Last Tuesday's New York Times Science Section posted an article titled "The Future of Computing" where a group of experts and some non-experts predicted the road ahead. For instance:

Year 2019 - Universal Medical Database
Year 2023 - Curing Cancer
Year 2024 - Practical Robot Cars

"By 2018 freeway car pool lanes will be opened to robot-driven cars." So you will no longer have to place that stuffed dummy in the passenger seat to fool the cops - the dummy will be driving the car! And you in the passenger seat texting and tweeting to your heart's content. But me with my EZ pass stuck behind Robo who is maintaining the speed limit. Heaven forbid we have a fender bender with "it" - State Farm will never believe me. I was thinking, "What if all the taxis in Times Square were robot driven?"
No horn blowing - no lane changing - no finger waving - no swearing in several languages. (The last three drivers I had were Haitian - Nigerian and Belarusian.) And it might cut down on immigration. As Paul Simon wrote -  "The Sound of Silence." But wait - the experts also predict by year 2040 we will have flying cars! Fasten your seat belts.
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