The Iowa caucuses teach a lesson that sometimes technology makes things worse.
The Holy Grail of self-driving technology, so its promoters tell us, is to replace the error-prone idiot behind the wheel with a flawlessly discerning and safer system of sensors and software.
Securities markets have become so instantaneously responsive to computerized orders that errors resulting from someone pressing a wrong button have earned their own moniker —These cases should make us wary of claims offered for technologies that are promoted as almost ready for the real world but are in reality still in their infancy. Take driverless cars, for example.
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