It looks like self-driving cars will be like global warming: there will be legions of people (as there are now) lined up to tell you it’ll never happen, meanwhile it is happening and will continue to happen.
Self-driving cars are a done deal.
Strangely enough, many of the self-driving car doubters are claiming the impossibility of ideas and applications that are already being used in the real world every day.
That I just can’t explain.
Typical STEM grad nonsense.
I see this sort of talk from STEM grads all the time — that their degrees are the only ones with value, and that they are the only ones who have any chance of getting a job. What’s funny is that the average STEM grad is almost invariably the most clueless person in the room about anything not directly related to their limited area of focus — and they have also have no inkling of just how very incompetent and ill-informed they are. I do like listening to them for the comedic value, though, depending on my mood.
Meanwhile, even if you just focus on the financial aspect (which is in itself a problem):
The narrative that any degree in the humanities is useless and bad has nothing at all to do with reality — it is that humanities degrees are threatening because they lead to the examination of societal problems and ways of being that many STEM grads wish we could just not think about.
STEM of course is vital to society. But so are people who know things about philosophy, about sociology, about history, about art, about music, and all the other myriad fields that make STEM grads whine.
Smartphones ruined the internet.
Not only, but they were the largest single factor.
Was it worth it? Not to me.