I wouldn’t mind the idea of everything going digital. So long as we actually own the digital copies we buy. So long also as we are able to continually access said digital copies. We wouldn’t be having this physical vs digital debate going on for so long, if the practices of what companies like Sony and other media companies have been going about with handling digitally purchased content.
It’s a very stupid easy of a solution that has been continually fumbled time and time again. Because greed got in the way.
Ask me again in 20 years and the answer will be self-driving cars. They have the potential to be great but I don’t see it going well.
I don’t see them ever working in city traffic because as much as I hate to admit it, you literally need to break traffic laws to get around sometimes, especially during rush hour. In like 2017 I took an Uber to a concert and it was when they were doing extremely early prototypes of self driving cars. Didn’t even know I was taking a self driving car until I got in.
This thing couldn’t drive on highways so we went downtown instead and it waited to yield for a left hand turn for no joke like 10 minutes before it was possible. Bunch of people just honking and going around us (illegally). The only viable way to take that turn is to creep forward until you’re a sitting duck in the middle of the intersection, then gun it and run the red light.
This also is all in Pittsburgh which we have some of the oldest and most fucked roads because of the geography and the paths for them were laid out in the late 1700s / early 1800s. Uber picked Pittsburgh because our roads were the most “challenging” to learn on and do R&D then one of their cars killed a pedestrian who was walking and they canned the whole project.