Part II
The Last Novice Driver to the Second Automobile Revolution
The future started yesterday and we’re already late.
—JOHN LEGEND
A modern car differs from the first motorized carriage the way an iPhone differs from the telegraph. Both of the latter serve for communication, but the way in which it is accomplished in either case is very different, not just in terms of looks and operation but also in terms of the underlying infrastructure. Instead of traveling by wire lines strung over wooden posts, our data travel by satellite and fiber-optic cables.
Sufficiently advanced technology seems a lot like magic.1 Just imagine the impression an iPhone would make on a person living in the nineteenth century. At the time Bertha Benz undertook her first ...
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