Will the Government Regulators Be Strong Enough to Prevent Anything Catastrophic Happening?

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In 50 years, you'll be able to drive an internal combustion engine with the big muscel car engine. There'll be no accidents on the line lanes, by eyes, but all these accidents over here. i've a feeling this is all going to happen slow enough that there's knocking bedy exestential threat to civilization as it's often portrayed by the a i xstantialist. The government regulators are strong enough to prevent anything catastrophic happening.

Michael Shermer speaks with Chris Edwards about educational reform, his study and teaching of world history, the problems in K–12 education, the zip-code model vs. the seat time model of education and how they result in massively different educational outcomes, how “no child left behind” left children behind, federal vs. state educational systems, cheating scandals and what to do about them, the future of education in a world of free (or nearly free) online learning, comparing the U.S. educational system to other countries. Shermer and Edwards also discuss thought experiments, based on Edwards’ latest book, Thought Experiments: History and Applications for Education.