The Next Great Turn of the Wheel
Change is coming . Over the next 25 years driverless vehicles will begin to transform the way we live, work, and organize our urbanizing world. It derives from the revolutionary nature of new tools available to us, and may provide us with a unique opportunity to re-balance the relationship between nature and technology. A Revolution, again . The transition to driverless vehicles will have recognizable similarities with past transitions in the ways we move ourselves, and our things, across the surface of the earth. Disruptive, comprehensive, and inexorable it is a process of change that began with walking and will continue to have profound and far-reaching effects. The combination of pre-existing technologies with more recent innovations are often at the heart of important changes in transportation . In this case one of the most productive technological lineages in human history, the wheel, is being combined with the emerging power of the computer. Not since the replac...