0/ Ever wonder who built/owns the self-driving pods in Minority Report? Uber finally shows us how we'll get there from here.
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1/ Unlimited, on-demand basic resources (food, shelter, transport) have long been a characteristic of science fiction.
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2/ The power of the "sharing economy" is that it offers a capitalistic (and hence realistic) model of how to deliver these.
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3/ With sufficient network density, sharing algorithms unlock dramatic economies of time, space and scale.
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LOL. As it happens I'm visiting SF next week; looks like pre-contagion or something.
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