
Author Peter Norton urges self-reflection from self-driving industry (Episode 136)
Shift: A podcast about mobility
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The Second Futurama
In 1964 there was a second Futurama called Futurama 2 by General Motors. The problem is once you've sold this vision once and it didn't work why is anyone supposed to believe you? And the thing that makes that credibility possible is connecting the vision to the new state of the art technology whatever that is. In Futurama 3 you have everything that was in Futurama 1 and 2. This time the technology we're talking now mostly late 80s through the 90s is the technology that had been developed not just for personal computing but also for the Pentagon.
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