That. In the end, it will come to efficiency, and we'll discover that it's much more efficient to breed a smarter monkey.

Clippy? Is that you?

Then try to take it into account in this new forecast. Specifically changes in the regulators' and city planners' behaviour. Perhaps robotaxis won't be allowed in the cities, perhaps only robobuses will be. Robo-trains and robo-metro should come before any of that, potentially reducing the price of public transport to almost free.

In fact, the changes that will come to traffic if ever the robo-drivers become a reality, are impossible to predict. Perhaps they will generate a change in where workplaces are located. The development of fast and practically free robo-delivery services will make remote work even more prevalent, or not, who knows. Perhaps big companies will contract regular lines of buses to go to each worker's home in turn... We simply don't know. The development of the smartphone and mobile internet gave rise to Uber, but also to share drives and rented scooters and mobile work. I certainly don't remember anybody predicting any of it with any precision when the first iPhone appeared.

Iphone 12? I mean, they took their time testing, didn't they?

You can make a different take on the same topic, by thinking that all things end, and when Bitcoin ends, the money that got into Bitcoins will be the same as the money that got out, minus fees. Then ask yourself which side of the equation are you likely to be.

I'd call that a gross design failure, like an electric door that has no manual way of being opened if there is a power failure. The autopilot tech is faaaaar too young to allow for that kind of removals.Hand cranks for example remained a feature decades after the invention of the electric starter.

I suppose they will take away the windows too, and you'll need to download an app to connect to the cameras and see what's happening around your car while you travel in it.

Why not phrase it as : "a structure that is almost, but not quite, completely unlike a human embryo"

You don't understand. It's obvious that they will make the subscriber part free. We'll have free Internet from then on, it's a good deal!

If you keep offering big burning sacrifices to the gods, they at last will hear you and send you the rain.

Sure, and some of the best paid managers in the world haven't thought about it, but you did.

There is the small problem of what happen if half the staff decides to call your bluff. And a bluff it was because if you fire half of your employees, then you suddenly have no company anymore. That would be real high-level managing.

You probably can get away with that kind of dictatorial managing in a small business, or when training for your workers is minimal and you have a lot of people wanting these jobs (soap opera actor for example), but none of those conditions apply at Amazon, I'd say.

Yup, it's really very romantic to see how politicians in EU try to hold up the agreed upon climate goals. They should do like everybody else and just ignore them. That should be no strain for them, they got a lot of practice ignoring their election promises.

Yup. What if the java code doesn't perform exactly like the COBOL code? Who's going to search for the hidden bug in the AI generated code? Will they wait till the next AI generation to do that?

Just apply Betteridge's law

I mean, what do you win by doing that kind of unsupported claims? It's the notoriety, it's to distract from other problems? I cannot see what you get doing that kind of "discoveries", and I cannot really suppose it's an honest mistake, not in this case, perhaps in the cold fusion shenanigan, but hardly in this one.

You know, I think the main reason is a psychological one. You (the CEO, the manager, the owner) like to feel like an important man (or woman), and that's easier if you can go outside your office and look at thousands of laboring minions. Also important is the ability to storm out to some department and dress down the department's head in front of all their subordinates. It's just not the same feeling to make a videocall, and it would be certainly strange to invite all the subordinates to that call.

Very likely there are some functions that will be better served in psysically connected teams, like training, some creative task, whatever. But I don't see any kind of analysis of that, just an "everybody must come back" mantra, with vague slogans as motive. I really think that the managers have been feeling empty since covid, and want their support toys back, bad.