RETROSPECT
Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata
I parked my car at the airport in Seattle, Wash., and rented a car in Oakland, Calif., after a two-hour flight. It cost more to park my old car than to rent a new one. Have machines finally become less expensive than the space they fill?
» Because airport parking is always scarce and cars are rented below cost on weekends, this is not a fair comparison. But the decline in the relative cost of machines versus the costs of space and people is real. Machines are being manufactured less and less by people, and more and more by other machines.
The current economic crisis, like a minus tide ...
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