Nah. I accounted for that and it's outlined in my statement (history speaks for itself, frankly). What you say was true 10 or 15 years ago, not so much now. As an example, I ran a university rapid prototyping lab back around 2000. We had a 3D printer that cost something in the tens of thousands of dollars. The software and computers to run it were many thousands of dollars. The training to use these items? Years! I know 10 year old kids who have $300 3D printers sitting on their family dining room tables that are BETTER than what that machine I had. They're using $200 tablets for design, using free software and they're making and building stuff that I would have struggled to make 25 years ago.
The car thing, is practicality and safety. It's orders of magnitude more difficult to fly than drive and requires significantly more power to do so. Even nature agrees that flying is plenty doable, but not everyone gets to do it.
OJVV - your formula omitted a key component: moola. Lots & lots.
If you can have a robot for the price of 50 human workers: deal or no deal?
Still waiting for the flying car I read about in 1950’s Popular Science 🙂
Nah. I accounted for that and it's outlined in my statement (history speaks for itself, frankly). What you say was true 10 or 15 years ago, not so much now. As an example, I ran a university rapid prototyping lab back around 2000. We had a 3D printer that cost something in the tens of thousands of dollars. The software and computers to run it were many thousands of dollars. The training to use these items? Years! I know 10 year old kids who have $300 3D printers sitting on their family dining room tables that are BETTER than what that machine I had. They're using $200 tablets for design, using free software and they're making and building stuff that I would have struggled to make 25 years ago.
The car thing, is practicality and safety. It's orders of magnitude more difficult to fly than drive and requires significantly more power to do so. Even nature agrees that flying is plenty doable, but not everyone gets to do it.