10/11/11

Planning for a nonexistent future

New Auto Technology Can Tell When You’re ‘Driving While Drowsy’ - TIME NewsFeed: "In the age of multilingual GPS devices, driver seat massages and cruise control navigation, it was only a matter of time before manufacturers developed drowsy driver alerts.

That's right – technology to tell you when you're in danger in nodding off behind the wheel, bringing you back to full attention through dashboard icons and warning alarms."

'via Blog this'

This assumes that a century from now there will be fuel to support an automobile world. I have my doubts. I believe the world of cars and sprawl is ending. The future will not be a slow evolution of the infrastructure we have now. It is more likely to be a response to cataclysmic environmental events. It is for this reason that I have proposed the cyber-community as a successor to sprawl-oil society.




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