I'm not that worried because humans are fickle creatures with an insanely sensitive trust/BS detector. One bad interaction out of 200 with a human/model and the human won't trust that human/model anymore. They'll categorize that human/model as a cute toy and look elsewhere for critical decisions or always get a second opinion.
My prediction is that digital content will end up just being "cute" and the real interactions/decisions will increasingly be offline and face-to-face. The open digital democracy that everyone hoped for will become tightly closed circles of humans talking face to face.
Re pilots vs doctors: pilots would be the equivalent of elective surgery, i.e., it can wait.
There are so few doctors that getting a tired doctor is "better than nothing" as you have a greater chance of survival if you get mediocre care vs no care at all and certain death.
Ironically, the reason my wife, a physician, gets to see her dad, a private pilot, most often is when he's flying medical teams to harvest organs from organ donors.
'Agreed' to your points, at least in part ;)
Right. And we have so few doctors because we artificially cap the number of doctors instead of letting free market dictate how many doctors we can have.
Exactly what I was thinking. I guess sometimes you have to prove something at wide range tower level before you ask to put blinky boxes in every ceiling throughout a whole country.
But it was working already - the alternatives then were
- landline
- landline + cell coverage in certain locations
For most people a "regular" cell phone was not an option at all. So this hybrid landline phone could have incrementally gained traction and out competed analog cell phones, but for a tiny watershed moment in history.
Also, this digital handset was light. Pretty cool tech. I think dense places like Singapore and Hong Kong could have ran with this tech.
I totally feel you on this. One time I spent three nights writing a language parser before my Google wormhole showed me I was writing a lexer/tokenizer. My colleagues with CS degrees just looked at me like I was an alien when I shared my excitement.
The purpose of college is to show people you can jump through four years of bureaucratic hoops with a smile on your face for no guaranteed reward.
This is actually a fantastic test for working in a large company. I always worry that anyone who can't finish college may not be a good fit for a large organization. I'm not always right but I'm right a lot.
Also it really does teach you how to learn. The content doesn't really matter.
If that's true (I do believe in it to some extent, but I'm not quite that cynical about it), European universities must be something right: You get a lot of Kafka-grade bureaucratic bang for your buck (often $0)!
My prediction is that digital content will end up just being "cute" and the real interactions/decisions will increasingly be offline and face-to-face. The open digital democracy that everyone hoped for will become tightly closed circles of humans talking face to face.
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