[ExI] bugless auto-driving campers, was: RE: young people having less sex

spike at rainier66.com spike at rainier66.com
Mon Nov 19 22:58:45 UTC 2018


 

 

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace

Subject: Re: [ExI] young people having less sex

 

So we can assume that what you report is both wonderful and disastrous news for the spy business.  How can one know that the embassy is safe from spying?  Can't, it seems.  bill w

 

 

 

 

Embassy ja.  Hotel room, not.  Reasoning: the transmission detectors/jammers do work and are practical (necessary) in an embassy, but impractical even if necessary in a hotel room.  The physical retrieval system can be defeated in an embassy by having classified meetings only in a classified area, which they probably are anyway (I would sure hope so.)

 

Writing about this gives me a terrific idea.

 

Consider the small but growing important minority: retired people with no children, few living family, no feelings toward their alma mater and pleeeeenty of money.  That last part is why I called them an important minority: society wants their money, and technology works to give them whatever they want in order to get it.

 

OK, I know plenty of people in this leisure class.  After they retire, they have money but nothing to do.  In many of those cases, they can’t really see all that well and don’t drive all that well, so they don’t feel comfortable driving a big motorhome.  They would rather do road trips than sea voyages (which are really kinda boring actually) so a foreseeable product emerges: a self-driving high-end motorhome.  

 

A self-driving feature tacks on several thousand bucks to a vehicle, but this would scarcely be noticed in a rig that already costs a couple hundred k, or more for a nice one.

 

As we get to the point where any hotel room or ship’s cabin might have hidden cameras 

 

https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/familys-shock-after-finding-hidden-camera-in-cruise-ship-cabin/news-story/498ee525e409df99595975800e424427

 

but we can ensure our own motorhome doesn’t, I can see them becoming more popular, particularly if you can get one to drive the proles somewhere.

 

spike

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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